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1750/1760

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1696 - 1770

The image shows an illustration of a crouching person with most of their body visible, except for their head. The person is bent over with one arm out to the side and one leg bent backward. No facial features or hair are shown. The person is wearing loose clothing. There are no objects or jewelry in the illustration. The background is a plain, light-colored surface.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Edward Cheney, Venice, (1803 - 1884) (sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 April 1885 as part of lot 1024. private collection (sale, Christie's, London, 14 July 1914, part of lot 49); (E. Parsons and Sons, London, 1914). (Leicester Galleries, London); Samuel Courtauld, 1946. (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London); Donald Stone, New York, 1974; gift to NGA, 1999.

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Bibliography

1954

  • Cooper, Douglas. The Courtauld Collection. London, 1954: 189, no. 252.

Watermarks

unidentified fragment

Wikidata ID

Q64572381

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