Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Holy Family with St. Joseph Kneeling
ca. 1757-1760
Pen and brown ink, with gray wash, on paper.
13 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches (352 x 235 mm)
Gift of Lore Heinemann, in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann.
1997.43
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Watermark: Shield with bow and arrow inside. Watermark (infrared transmitted): Shield, bow, arrow. 142777wm_1997_43_WM_transmIR.tiff

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Signed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Giovanni Battista Tiepolo".

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; Mark Oliver; Tomas Harris, London; 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.
Oliver, Mark, 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. 62, repr.

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