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Materials:
pen and brown ink
Size Notes:
6¹?? x 7¹?? in. (16.3 x 18.5 cm)
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Provenance:
GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid) A seated woman seen from below pen and brown ink, brown wash 61?2 x 71?4 in. (16.3 x 18.5 cm) Probably given by the artist or his son Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) to Somaschi convent at Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, where the former’s son Giuseppe Maria Tiepolo lived ; after the suppression of the convent to 1810 to Count Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1834), Venice. Antonio Canova (1757-1822), Venice; by his descent to his half-brother, Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori Canova (1775-1858), Venice. Francesco Pesaro (1740-1799), Venice; sold by him to in 1842 to Edward Cheney (1803-1884), Badger Hall, Shropshire; by descent to his brother-in-law Colonel Alfred Capel-Cure (1826-1896), Blake Hall, Essex; Sotheby’s, London, 29 April 1885, part of lot 1024 (bought in); Christie’s, London, 14 July 1914, part of lot 49. with E. Parsons, London. Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882-1950), London (L. 2274a). with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1945.