Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Head of an Older Bearded Man
ca. 1740-50
Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper.
10 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (277 x 200 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Rudolf J. Heinemann, in memory of Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann.
1996.89
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Watermark: Seven petaled flower on stem with leaves.

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Watermark: Seven-petaled flower with stem and three leaves.

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Library of the Somasco Convent at S. Maria della Salute, Venice; Count Leopoldo Cicognara; Antonio Canova, Venice; his half-brother Monsignor G.B. Sartori-Canova; Francesco Pesaro; Edward Cheney; sale, London, Sotheby's, 29 April 1885, lot 1024; E. Parsons and Sons, London; Richard Owen, Paris; Tomas Harris, London; Dr. Rudolf J. and Lore Heinemann, New York.
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Cicognara, Leopoldo, conte, 1767-1834, former owner.
Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822, former owner.
Sartori-Canova, G. B., former owner.
Pesaro, Francesco, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Owen, Richard, former owner.
Harris, Tomás, 1908-1964, former owner.
Heinemann, Rudolf J., former owner.
Heinemann, Lore, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Lore and Rudolf Heinemann. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 69, repr.

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