A Woman Seated on a Cloud, Seen from Below

1750s

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1696 - 1770

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 23.3 x 17.7 cm (9 3/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1993.3.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Henry Scipio Reitlinger [1882-1950] (Lugt Suppl 2274a) (sale, Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1953, no. 112); (sale, Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1992, no. 10, unsold); purchased 1993 through (Sotheby's, London) by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Watermarks

present but not identified

Wikidata ID

Q64572379

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