A man looking down to the left, his hands clasped to his shoulder

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GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (VENICE 1696-1770 MADRID)
A man looking down to the left, his hands clasped to his shoulder
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
7 ½ x 5 5⁄8 in. (19 x 14.5 cm)

Provenance

Probably given by the artist or his son Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) to the
Somaschi convent at Santa Maria della Salute, Venice.
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 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.
probably Messrs. B. T. Batsford, London; Christie’s, London, 14 July 1914, part of lot 49.
with E. Parsons and Sons, London.
Richard C. Paine (1893-1966), Boston; then by descent to
John D. Constable (1927-2016), Cambridge MA; then by descent to the present owners.

Exhibited

Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Darmouth, New Hampshire, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Darmouth College, and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections. 1973, no. 30, ill. (catalogue by F. W. Robinson).

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Lot Essay

Like the drawing in the previous lot, this sheet was also part of a now disbound album of drawings of the series Sole figure vestite. Several similar drawings are in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum (see for example, inv. x1948-827; C. Whistler, in Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 2014, no. 79, ill.).

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