Lot Essay
Evidently from the album entitled 'Sole Figure per Soffitti'. Bateson owned a major group of drawings by Tiepolo
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)
Details
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)
A Man holding a Sword seen di sotto in su
pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark SC
274 x 189mm.
A Man holding a Sword seen di sotto in su
pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark SC
274 x 189mm.
Provenance
Probably Count Bernardino Corniani, until 1852
Probably Edward Cheney, and by inheritance to A. Chapel Cure;
Sotheby's, London, April 1885, from lot 1024
B.T. Batsford; London, 14 July 1914, from lot 49 (¨120 to Parsons)
W. Bateson (L. 2604a), Sotheby's, London, 23 April 1929, lot 91
Probably Edward Cheney, and by inheritance to A. Chapel Cure;
Sotheby's, London, April 1885, from lot 1024
B.T. Batsford; London, 14 July 1914, from lot 49 (¨120 to Parsons)
W. Bateson (L. 2604a), Sotheby's, London, 23 April 1929, lot 91