Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1696-1770

Figure holding an Umbrella

ca. 1745

Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.

3 5/16 x 4 5/16 inches (84 x 109 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

IV, 132c

Notes:

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". Image aligns with IV, 123D.
Preparatory for the fresco of Fame Heralding the Arrival of Henry III of ca. 1745, now in the Musee Jacquemart-Andre', Paris, but originally a ceiling in the Villa Contarini-Pisani, Mira.
Watermark: fragment, possibly base of a crossed arrow.

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.

Associated names:

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 Capel, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

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