Download image:
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Sorcerer
Pen and brown ink, with blue wash, over black chalk, on paper.
7 9/16 x 5 1/4 inches (193 x 133 mm)
Gift of János Scholz.
1983.54
Download verso image:
Notes:
Watermark: none.
The attribution to Giovanni Battista has been questioned because of the unusual use of blue wash.
Provenance:
Unidentified Italian collector's mark (armorial stamp in black ink on verso); Lorenzon, Venice; from whom acquired in 1957 by János Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Lorenzon, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
Venetian Drawings from the Collection of János Scholz. Montgomery, Ala. : Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1976, no. 62, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 305.
Catalog link:
Artist page:
School:
Century:
Classification:
Department: