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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Seated Male Nude, 1752/1753

Not on View

Medium

red chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 28.9 × 37 cm (11 3/8 × 14 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Knox 1980, M 572

Accession Number

2007.111.170.a

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

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Inscription

lower right, red chalk, signed (?), Tiepolo Fct; verso, lower left, brown ink, "G.B.T." and (Bossi Beyerlen numbers) "f.1 [1 florin] C.M. [Conventions-Münze]" and "No 2793"

Provenance

Johann Dominik Bossi, Munich; by descent to his daughter, Maria Theresia Caroline and her husband Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen, Stuttgart; (their sale, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 27 March 1882); Dr. Oscar Eisenmann, Cassel; Wilhelm Lübke, Stuttgart; (Joseph Baer & Sons, Frankfurt); Dr. Hans Wendland, Lugano; (his sale, Ball & Graupe, Berlin, 24-25 April 1931, no. 103); Dr. Erich Alport, Oxford; (sold by his estate, Christie's London, 4 July 1972, no. 186); Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Ursula and Adolf Ratjen, Vaduz, for Wolfgang Ratjen; Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Alport, Erich, Dr.
Ball & Graupe
Beyerlen, Carl Christian Friedrich
Bossi, Johann Dominik
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Eisenmann, Oscar, Dr.
Gutekunst, H. G.
Joseph Baer & Sons
List, Herbert
Lübke, Wilhelm
Ratjen, Ursula and Adolf
Stiftung Ratjen
Wendland, Hans

Exhibition History

1977: Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts. Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. Munich, 1977, 214-217, no. 99 (entry by Maria Santifaller).

1979: Zeichnungen Italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloss Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, 56, no. 97.

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz. Bern, 1995, no. 40.

1996: Der Himmel auf Erden: Tiepolo in Würzburg. Residenz, Würzburg. Munich, 1996: 147, no. 80 (both recto and verso reproduced; entry by Florian Fiedler).

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 40 (reprod. on the frontispiece).

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011, no. 49.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 72.

Bibliography

1977: Stiftung Ratjen. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 1977: 214-217.

1980: Knox, George. Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo. A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings. 2 vols. Oxford, 1980, 1: 259 (under no. M 375), 278, no. M 572.

1995: Lachenmann, David. Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz. Vaduz, 1995: no. 40 and frontispiece.

1996: Aikema, Bernard. Tiepolo and His Circle. Drawings in American Collections. Fogg Art Museum, Cambirdge, and Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Cambridge, 1996, 280-281, under no. 103, fig. 1.

1996: Der Himmel auf Erden. Tiepolo in Würzburg. Residenz, Würzburg. 2 vols. Munich, 1996: 146-147.

1996: Lachenmann, David. Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. Exh. cat. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996: no. 40 and frontispiece.

2007: Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings. Morgan Library & Museum, New York, and National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2007: 139, note 4, under no. 53 (entry by Andrew Robison).

2011: Italian Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection 1525-1835. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2011: 112-115.