A Bearded Old Man Leaning His Head on His Hand, 1755/1762

Not on View

Medium

charcoal with stumping and blue pastel

Dimensions

sheet: 39.3 × 26.9 cm (15 1/2 × 10 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke

Accession Number

2007.111.173

Artists / Makers

Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1736 - 1776

Image Use

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Inscription

verso: signed or inscribed with initials "L.T." and (Bossi Beyerlen numbers) "f2.30X" and "No. 2820" (the last digit changed from 7); in later graphite "Lor. Tiepolo fec."

Provenance

Johann Dominik Bossi 1767-1853], Munich; by descent to his daughter, Maria Theresia Caroline [1825-1881] and her husband, Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen [1826-1881], Stuttgart; (their sale, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 27 March 1882); Baron Ferdinand von Stumm [1843-1925]; (his sale, Hans W. Lange, Berlin, 30 March 1939, no. 103, as "Giovanni Battista Tiepolo"); Nikolaus and Ursula von Stumm, Munich; Wolfgang Ratjen [1943-1997], Vaduz and Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Beyerlen, Carl Christian Friedrich
Bossi, Johann Dominik
Gutekunst, H. G.
Lange, Hans W.
Stiftung Ratjen
Stumm, Ferdinand Eduard von, Freiherr
Stumm, Nikolaus and Ursula von

Exhibition History

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 43.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 43.

1999: Lorenzo Tiepolo, Museo Nacional del Prado, 21 October-15 December 1999, 160, fig. 64, no. 28.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 58.

2012: The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 101.

Bibliography

1980: Knox, George. Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo. A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings. 2 vols. Oxford, 1980, 1: 249, no. M.335.

1994: Thiem, Christel. "Lorenzo Tiepolo as Draftsman." Master Drawings 32, no. 4 (Winter, 1994): 335-336, 338, 347, no. 15, fig. 31 (reproduced on the cover).

1995: Lachenmann, David. Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Vaduz, 1995: no. 43.

1996: Lachenmann, David. Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. Exh. cat. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996 no. 43

1996: Thiem, Christel. "Lorenzo, der Jüngste der Künstlerfamilie Tiepolo," in Der Himmel auf Erden. Tiepolo in Würzburg. Residenz, Würzburg. 2 vols. Munich, 1996, 2: 118, pl. 6.

1999: Roelofs, Pieter, and Bernard Aikema. "Los dibujos de Lorenzo Tiepolo," in Lorenzo Tiepolo. Museo del Prado. Madrid, 1999: 159, 160, 162, no. 28, fig. 64.