Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Reclining Woman Seen from Below
ca. 1750-1760
Pen and brown ink and wash.
6 1/8 x 9 1/8 inches (158 x 232 mm)
Thaw Collection.
2017.243

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Provenance: 
Count Algarotti-Corniani; Edward Cheney; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 29 April, 1885, lot 1024); Irish collection; William Fagg, Sydenham; Messrs. B. T. Batsford, London; sale, London, Christie's, 14 July 1914, lot 49 (bought by E. Parsons) ; Robert Lehman, New York; Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut; Paul Magriel, New York; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw; New York.
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Algarotti-Corniani, Bernardino Count, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Fagg, William Buller, former owner.
Batsford, B. T., former owner.
Parsons, E., former owner.
Lehman, Robert, 1892-1969, former owner.
Magriel, Paul, 1906-1990, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 366, 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. 46.

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