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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1727-1804
Masqueraders Walking and a Woman seen from the Rear. Verso: fragmentary sketch of a prostrate figure and a standing figure
ca. 1757
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over black chalk, on paper; verso: reed pen and brown ink.
6 9/16 x 4 5/16 inches (165 x 109 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1983.63
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A difficult sheet to date. The verso is in some ways akin to the earliest Domenico drawings of the 1740s, but the rustic figures on the recto seem related to the 1757 frescoes in the Villa Valmarana.
Watermark: none.

Provenance: 
Private collection, Madrid; from whom acquired in 1956 by Janos Scholz, New York (see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Venetian Drawings, 1600-1800. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Berkeley : Gillick, 1960, no. 87, repr.
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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Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico
School: 
Italian
Century: 
18th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints