Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1727-1804
Boatman and Crowd at the Shores of a Lake
ca. 1755
Pen and brown ink and wash, pen and brown-black ink and gray wash, over black chalk, on paper.
7 1/16 x 10 7/16 inches (180 x 265 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Rudolf J. Heinemann, in memory of Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann.
1996.112
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Signed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Dom.o [o superscript above period] Tiepolo f".

Provenance: 
Domenico Tiepolo's pupil Giovanni Domenico Bossi, Munich; his daughter, Maria Theresa Caroline Bossi, Stuttgart; her husband, Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen, Stuttgart; sale, Stuttgart, H.G. Gutekunst, 27 March 1882; Sir Robert Witt, London; Tomas Harris, London; Dr. Rudolf J. and Lore Heinemann, New York.
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Bossi, Giovanni Domenico, former owner.
Bossi, Maria Theresa Caroline, 1825-1881, former owner.
Beyerlen, Carl Christian Friedrich, 1826-1881, former owner.
Witt, Robert Clermont, Sir, 1872-1952, former owner.
Harris, Tomás, 1908-1964, former owner.
Heinemann, Rudolf J., former owner.
Heinemann, Lore, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Lore and Rudolf Heinemann. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 84, repr.

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