Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)

A seated female figure holding a globe, seen from below

Details

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)
A seated female figure holding a globe, seen from below
pen and brown ink, brown wash over faint red chalk studies of the heads of two orientals, watermark device
213 x 161 mm.

Provenance

Edward Cheney, Badger Hall, Shropshire, by 1842, and by descent to his nephew,
Alfred Capel-Cure, Blake Hall, Essex; Sotheby's, 29 April 1885, part of lot 1024.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 14 July 1914, lot 49 (to Parsons).
With E. Parsons, London.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 5 July 1988, lot 88 (14,500).

Lot Essay

Probably part of the album Sole figure per soffitti sold in these Rooms in 1914 and broken by the dealer Parsons. The album contained 170 sheets now widespread in public and private collection. A drawing from this series was illustrated by B. Aikema in the exhibition catalogue Tiepolo and His Circle, New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library and elsewhere, 1997, lot 87, illustrated.

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