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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Seated Warrior Holding Shield and Sword
Pen and brown ink and wash, on paper.
10 3/16 x 7 3/8 inches (258 x 187 mm)
Gift of Lore Heinemann, in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann.
1997.46
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Numbered at lower left, in pen and gray ink, "72".

Provenance: 
Count Bernardino Algarotti-Corniani; Edward Cheney (no mark; see Lugt 444); his brother-in-law Colonel Alfred Capel Cure; sale, London, Sotheby's, 29 April 1885, presumably part of lot 1024; Anonymous collection, Ireland; William Fagg, Syndenham; Messrs. B. T. Batsford; sale, London, Christie's, 14 July 1914, lot 49; E. Parsons and Sons, London; Dr. Rudolf J. and Lore Heinemann, New York.
Associated names: 

Algarotti-Corniani, Bernardino Count, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Cure, Alfred Capel, former owner.
Fagg, William Buller, former owner.
Heinemann, Rudolf J., former owner.
Heinemann, Lore, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Lore and Rudolf Heinemann. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 58, repr.

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Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
School: 
Italian
Century: 
18th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints