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Boatman and Crowd at the Shores of a Lake

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1727-1804

Boatman and Crowd at the Shores of a Lake

7 1/16 x 10 7/16 inches (180 x 265 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, pen and brown-black ink and gray wash, over black chalk, on paper.
1996.112

Gift of Mrs. Rudolf J. Heinemann, in memory of Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann.

Notes
The subject of this drawing is not certain. While it could conceivably represent a biblical scene such as the Preaching of the Baptist or Christ Preaching at the Sea of Galilee, it lacks elements that would make that identification clear; it has alternately been suggested that this and several other early compositional sketches by Domenico Tiepolo are capricci, inventions deliberately without a clear subject.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "Dom.o [o superscript above period] Tiepolo f".
Associated names
Bossi, Giovanni Domenico, former owner.
Bossi, Maria Theresa Caroline, 1825-1881, former owner.
Beyerlen, Carl Christian Friedrich, 1826-1881, former owner.
Witt, Robert Clermont, Sir, 1872-1952, 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. 84, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department