A Venetian Lawyer at His Desk
1755/1760
Artist, Venetian, 1696 - 1770

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with gray wash on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 20.5 x 14 cm (8 1/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
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Accession
1984.3.67
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Possibly Dpmenico Tiepolo; possibly sold to Count Bernardino Coriani-Algaroti; possibly by whom sold 1852 to Edward Cheney [1803-1884]; his brother in law Alfred Capel-Cure; 9sold, Sotheby's, London, 29 April 1885, no. 1024); Marques of Bredalbane, Langdon House, Duns, Berwichshire; (sale, Dowells, Edinburgh, 25 March 1925, no. 1004); purchased by John Grant, Edinburgh; purchased by Arthur Kay, Edinburgh c. 1926; (his sale, Christie's, London, 8-9 April 1943, part of no. 248); Frederick Stern; Julius S. Held [1905-2002], Old Bennington, VT; 1984 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1970
Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, Binghamton; traveling exhibition, 1970, no. 135.
1984
Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., January 1984.
1994
The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 206, 207, 4501, no. 122 (repro. p. 206)(entry by Colin Harrison).
2003
"Il Gran Teatro del Mondo: L'Anima e il Volto del Settecento", Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2003-2004, no. II.91.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 73.
Bibliography
1970
Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held. Exh. cat. University Art Gallery, Binghamton, 1970: 26.
1971
Caricature and its Role in Graphic Satire. Exh. cat. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1971: 30.
1994
The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: 206, 501, no. 122.
1996
Tiepolo and His Circle. Drawings in American Collections. Fogg Art Museum, Cambirdge, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Cambridge, 1996: 220-221.
2003
Caroli, Flavio. Il Gran Teatro del Mondo. Skira, Milan, 2003: 474-475.
Inscriptions
upper right verso on hinge in graphite, circled: 82
Wikidata ID
Q64572368