Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1727-1804
Figures around a Sacrificial Altar
ca. 1745-1747
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
11 15/16 x 18 1/8 inches (303 x 461 mm)
Purchase.
1977.2
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Watermark: none.

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Numbered on verso, in pen and brown ink, "158".

Provenance: 
Dan Fellows Platt, Englewood, NJ (Lugt S. 750a); Janos Scholz, New York (Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Platt, Dan Fellows, 1873-1938, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Stampfle, Felice, and Jacob Bean. Drawings from New York collections. III: The eighteenth century in Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1971, no. 249, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 293.

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