Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1727-1804
Assumption of the Virgin?
Pen and black-brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on blued paper.
10 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches (257 x 187 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
IV, 151d
Notes: 

On same mat as IV, 151c; not in Fairfax Murray catalog.
Watermark: Bird. Watermark, beta radiograph. bird. 142917wm_ IV151D_WM_beta.jpg

Inscription: 

Signed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Dom.o [o in superscript above period] Tiepolo f".

Provenance: 
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.

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