Standing Figure Wearing a Hat

c. 1760?

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1696 - 1770

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 18.5 × 10.9 cm (7 5/16 × 4 5/16 in.), corners removed

  • Accession Number

    2022.40.29

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly the Conti Valmarana, Vicenza; sold to Paul Wallraf, London.[1] Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020], by 2006; bequest to NGA, 2022.
[1] See the group of Tiepolo caricatures with similar borderlines, inscriptions, and trimmed corners now in the Lehman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art (J. Byam Shaw and G. Knox, The Robert Lehman Collection. Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings, New York, 1987: nos. 97-111).

Associated Names

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper center verso in black ink: fr. 5 [crossed out]; Tiepolo giambattista [undeciphered] di carica / ture chi hanno servito per i celebri / suoi quadri di conversazioni e marche / [not deciphered].

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