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Study for a Ceiling. Verso: Study of Figures on Clouds

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770

Study for a Ceiling. Verso: Study of Figures on Clouds

9 7/16 x 7 11/16 inches (252 x 196 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash on paper.
IV, 98d

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".
Watermark: Fir tree over scrollwork. Watermark, transmitted infrared, fir tree. 253988wm_IV_98d_WM_transmIR.tiff
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
George Knox, "G. B. Tiepolo and the ceiling of the Scalzi," Burlington Magazine, CX, 1968, p. 397, figs. 44, 45.
Svetlana Alpers and Michael Baxandall, Tiepolo, Yale University Press, London, ca. 1994.
Beverly Brown, review of 1997 Tiepolo show, in The World and Eye, Spring 1997.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department