Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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1696-1770

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

1754

Pen and brown ink and wash on paper.

9 7/16 x 7 11/16 inches (252 x 196 mm)

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

IV, 98d

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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

Provenance:

Count Francesco Algarotti; probably by descent to his brother and heir, Count Bonomo Algarotti; his daughter Maria Algarotti-Corniani; her son Count Bernardino Corniani; Edward Cheney (no mark; see Lugt 444); Colonel Alfred Capel Cure (Cheney's brother-in-law); sale, London, Sotheby's, April 29, 1885, presumably part of lot 1024; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

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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

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.

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