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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Helmeted Head
Pen and brown ink and gray-brown wash, over black chalk, on paper.
7 1/8 x 5 9/16 inches (181 x 141 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 129b
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One of a series of 108 drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo from an album bearing the title, "TIEPOLO DESSINS ORIGINAUX", inscribed by Edward Cheney, "E.C. Venice 1852 May 31 / bought from the Conte Corniani Algarotti".
Inscribed in pen and brown ink on verso at lower edge: 1755.- xr.s 4. various other numbers and word, A Grand in pencil.
Watermark: Possibly a tulip or lamb. Watermark, transmitted infrared, tulip, or flower. 254662wm_IV_129b__WM_transmIR.tiff
Provenance:
Count Francesco Algarotti; probably by descent to his brother and heir, Count Bonomo Algarotti; his daughter Maria Algarotti-Corniani; her son Count Bernardino Corniani; Edward Cheney (no mark; see Lugt 444); Colonel Alfred Capel Cure (Cheney's brother-in-law); sale, London, Sotheby's, April 29, 1885, presumably part of lot 1024; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
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Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712-1764, former owner.
Algarotti, Bonomo, 1706-1776, former owner.
Algarotti-Corniani, Maria, former owner.
Corniani, Bernardino, conte, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Cure, Alfred Cape
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