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Masqueraders Walking and a Woman seen from the Rear. Verso: fragmentary sketch of a prostrate figure and a standing figure

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1727-1804

Masqueraders Walking and a Woman seen from the Rear. Verso: fragmentary sketch of a prostrate figure and a standing figure

6 9/16 x 4 5/16 inches (165 x 109 mm)
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over black chalk, on paper; verso: reed pen and brown ink.
1983.63

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
A difficult sheet to date. The verso is in some ways akin to the earliest Domenico drawings of the 1740s, but the rustic figures on the recto seem related to the 1757 frescoes in the Villa Valmarana.
Watermark: none.
Associated names
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Venetian Drawings, 1600-1800. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Berkeley : Gillick, 1960, no. 87, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 308.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department