Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Design for an Escutcheon with Military Emblems and Musical Instruments
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over red chalk, on paper.
4 15/16 x 4 15/16 inches (125 x 125 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1983.57

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Watermark: none visible through lining.

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Cernazai, Venice; Antonio dal Zotto, Venice? (on eighteenth-century dal Zotto type mount); Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de St. Saphorin, Switzerland; Dr. Ferdinand de Cerenville, Switzerland; Reichlen Gallery, Lausanne; André Marmier, Geneva; from whom purchased in 1965 by János Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
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Cernazai, former owner.
Zotto, Antonio dal, former owner.
Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Cerenville, Ferdinand de, former owner.
Marmier, André, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

One Hundred Italian Drawings from the 14th to the 18th Centuries from the János Scholz Collection. New York : New School Art Center, 1971, no. 85.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 306.

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