Attributed to Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
A Group of Onlookers
23 1/2 x 17 3/8 inches (595 x 441 mm)
Pen and black ink, with gray wash, over black chalk, on paper prepared on both sides with a gray wash.
1983.43
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Possibly for an execution scene.
Possibly for an execution scene.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, in pencil, "Tiepolo // G.B."
Associated names
Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Bovet, Alfred, b. 1859, former owner.
Burnand, Eugène, 1850-1921, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bovet, Alfred, b. 1859, former owner.
Burnand, Eugène, 1850-1921, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 307.
Classification
Century Drawings
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