Attributed to Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1727-1804
Seated Old Monk Reading a Book
9 7/8 x 7 5/16 inches (250 x 185 mm)
Black and white chalk, on blue paper.
1983.45
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Possibly a study for the figure of St. Jerome.
Possibly a study for the figure of St. Jerome.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower right, in black chalk, "Tiep[...]"; on verso, in pen and brown ink, "Tiepolo".
Associated names
Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Bovet, Alfred, b. 1859, former owner.
Burnand, Eugène, 1850-1921, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bovet, Alfred, b. 1859, former owner.
Burnand, Eugène, 1850-1921, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 308.
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Century Drawings
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