Study of a Draped Figure, c. 1750

Not on View

Medium

red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 24.2 × 16.3 cm (9 1/2 × 6 7/16 in.)
mount: 28.3 × 20.6 cm (11 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2018.76.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

Image Use

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Provenance

Possibly Armand François Louis de Mestral de Saint-Saphorin [1738-1805], Vienna (according to 1986 sale catalogue); possibly by descent to Madeleine and Marguerite de Mestral, Saint-Saphorin-sur Morges, Switzerland; possibly Édouard de Cérenville [1843-1915], Lausanne; possibly by descent to René de Cérenville [1875-1968], Lausanne; (anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 January 1986, no. 174); (sale, De Baecque & Associés, Drouot , Paris, 18 November 2016, no. 3); (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London); NGA purchase in 2018.

Associated Names

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art

Bibliography

2017: Ongpin, Stephen. Master Draughtsmen of the Venetian Settecento: Drawings by Giovanni Battista and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. London, 2017: no. 7 (color).