Lot Essay
Professor George Knox dated this drawing to the 1750s.
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Franciscan friars reading the Scripture
Details
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)
Tiepolo, G.B.
Franciscan friars reading the Scripture
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark coat-of-arms with N
6.7/8 x 5 in. (173 x 128 mm.)
Tiepolo, G.B.
Franciscan friars reading the Scripture
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark coat-of-arms with N
6.7/8 x 5 in. (173 x 128 mm.)
Provenance
Prince Alexis Orloff; Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 29-30 April 1920, lot 149.
Literature
G. Knox, 'The Orloff Album of Tiepolo Drawings', Burlington Magazine, 1961, p. 275, no. 67.