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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Head of an Old Man
ca. 1760
Pen and brown ink and wash.
9 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches (232 x 184 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.250
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Watermark: Animal with tail, holding ball, on pedestal, surmounted by crown.
Provenance:
The Library of the Samasco Convent (S. Maria della Salute), Venice; Count Leopoldo Cicognara; Antonio Canova, the sculptor; his half-brother, Monsignor G.B. Sartori-Canova; Francesco Pesaro; Edward Cheney; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 29 April 1885, lot 1024; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London; Richard Owen, Paris; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
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Associated names:
Cicognara, Leopoldo, conte, 1767-1834, former owner.
Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822, former owner.
Sartori-Canova, G. B., former owner.
Pesaro, Francesco, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Owen, Richard, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography:
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 373, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 47.
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