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Head of an Old Man

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770

Head of an Old Man

ca. 1760
9 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches (232 x 184 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash.
2017.250

Thaw Collection.

Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Animal with tail, holding ball, on pedestal, surmounted by crown.
Associated names
Cicognara, Leopoldo, conte, 1767-1834, former owner.
Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822, former owner.
Sartori-Canova, G. B., former owner.
Pesaro, Francesco, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Owen, Richard, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 373, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 47.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department