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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1727-1804
Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt Accompanied by Angels
ca. 1785-1791
Pen and brown ink and wash, over charcoal, on paper.
18 x 14 1/8 inches (457 x 359 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 148
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Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Dom.o[o in superscript above period] Tiepolo f."; numbered on verso, in graphite, "33".
Watermark: Letters "AM" below bow and arrow. Probably papermaker Andrea Maffizzoli, Toscolano.
Provenance:
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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Associated names:
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography:
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 148, repr.
Pierpont Morgan Library gästar Nationalmuseum, juni-september 1970. Stockholm: Nationalmuseet, 1970, no. 48.
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