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Two Seated Women

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770

Two Seated Women

5 1/4 x 9 5/16 inches (133 x 236 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over graphite, on paper.
IV, 122

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
One of a series of 108 drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo from an album bearing the title, "TIEPOLO DESSINS ORIGINAUX", inscribed by Edward Cheney, "E.C. Venice 1852 May 31 / bought from the Conte Corniani Algarotti".
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Bear, crossing one chain line.
Associated names
Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712-1764, former owner.
Algarotti, Bonomo, 1706-1776, former owner.
Algarotti-Corniani, Maria, former owner.
Corniani, Bernardino, conte, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Cure, Alfred Capel, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 122.
Phoebe Flory Walker, Watercolor Portraiture, New York, 1949, pl. 54.
James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, Madison, 1957, p. 144, 151.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department