Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)

A drawing of similar subject and technique is in the Robert Lehman collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (J. Byam Shaw and G. Knox, The Robert Lehman collection: Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings, New York, 1987, I, no. 161). Domenico's father also made wash drawings of exotic men wearing turbans, for example see Head of a moustachioed man in a turban (sold, Sotheby's, New York, 23 January 2008, lot 82).