Caricature of a man seen from behind wearing a tricorn and a long coat

Details

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)
Caricature of a man seen from behind wearing a tricorn and a long coat
pen and brown ink, brown wash, the corners cut
7 3/8 x 4 in. (189 x 103 mm.)

Provenance

Possibly Conte Valmarana, Vicenza.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 April 1992, lot 139.

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Lot Essay

Fifteen caricatures by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo from the collection of the Conti Valmarana, of the same size and technique as the present drawing and likewise often with the corners cut, are at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (J. Byam Shaw and G. Knox, The Robert Lehman Collection, VI, Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings, New York, 1987, nos. 97-111). The Valmarana group are separate from the now disbound album of caricatures formerly owned by Arthur Kay.

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