Standing Figure Wearing a Hat, c. 1760?

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Gift of Donald Stone

Accession Number

2022.40.29

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

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Inscription

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].

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

Stone, Donald
Villa Valmarana
Wallraf, Paul