Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1727-1804
Massacre of the Innocents
Pen and brown ink and wash, brown-black wash, over charcoal, on paper.
18 1/4 x 14 1/8 inches (464 x 359 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 149
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Signed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Dom.o[o in superscript above period] Tiepolo f."
Watermark: Crown above shield, with three stars inside. Possibly from Andrea Fossati Company, Veneto region.

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Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
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Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 149, repr.

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