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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Head of an Older Man in Profile
ca. 1740-1750
Pen and brown ink and wash, on laid paper.
8 9/16 x 7 11/16 inches (219 x 196 mm)
Gift of Lore Heinemann, in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann.
1997.39
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Watermark: Letters "ZA" inside shield with crown. Watermark (countermark) (transmitted infrared) letters ZA, shield. 142772wm_1997_39_WM_transmIR
Provenance:
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; Dr. Rudolf J. and Lore Heinemann, New York.
Associated names:
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.
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. 68, repr.
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