Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1696-1770

Figures Leaning on a Parapet

ca. 1745

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

1 7/8 x 5 9/16 inches (48 x 141 mm)

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

IV, 122a

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".
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: none.

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.

Bibliography:

George Knox, "G. B. Tiepolo and the ceiling of the Scalzi," Burlington Magazine, CX, 1968, p. 397, fig. 48.

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