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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
The Head of St. Peter
Red chalk, with white chalk, over black chalk, on blue paper.
8 1/16 x 6 5/8 inches (204 x 168 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1983.60
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A study for a "Last Supper" in the Paris Church at Desenzano.
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Inscribed on verso, in pen and brown ink, "X rs 36. No 3245".
Watermark: Coat of arms with letters "PA/FW".
Provenance:
Domenico Tiepolo's pupil Johann Dominik Bossi, Munich; his daughter, Maria Theresa Caroline Bossi, Stuttgart; her husband, Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen, Stuttgart; sale, Stuttgart, H.G. Gutekunst, 27 March 1882; presumably bought by Dr. O. Eisenmann, Kassel; presumably hence to Wilhelm Lübke, Stuttgart; Dr. Hans Wendland, Lugano; Gustave Nebehay, Vienna; Berton, New York; from whom purchased by Janos Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Associated names:
Bossi, Johann Dominik, 1767-1853, former owner.
Bossi, Maria Theresa Caroline, 1825-1881, former owner.
Beyerlen, Carl Christian Friedrich, 1826-1881, former owner.
Eisenmann, O. (Oskar), 1842-1933, former owner.
Lübke, Wilhelm, 1826-1893, former owner.
Wendland, Hans, former owner.
Nebehay, Gustave, former owner.
Berton, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 306-307.
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