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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Head of a Moor Bending Forward, 1770

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series Title

Raccolta di Teste

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 14.4 x 11.5 cm (5 11/16 x 4 1/2 in.)

sheet: 17.6 x 14 cm (6 15/16 x 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Rizzi 1971, no. 180, State i/ii

Accession Number

2001.109.4

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1727 - 1804

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left in graphite: DeV 136 I S. 141; by later hand, lower right in graphite: ex c. 27364

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Mendez, Christopher

Bibliography

1906: Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906.

1971: Rizzi, Aldo. The Etchings of the Tiepolos. Complete edition. London: Phaidon, 1971.

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