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GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (VENICE 1696-1770 MADRID)
Lot 48 Property from the Estate of Sylvia Paine Constable

GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (VENICE 1696-1770 MADRID)

A man looking down to the left, his hands clasped to his shoulder

Closed1 February 2024

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GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (VENICE 1696-1770 MADRID)
A man looking down to the left, his hands clasped to his shoulder
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
7 ½ x 5 5⁄8 in. (19 x 14.5 cm)

Probably given by the artist or his son Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) to the
Somaschi convent at Santa Maria della Salute, Venice.
Count Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1834), Venice.
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), Venice; by his descent to his half-brother,
Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori Canova (1775-1858), Venice.
Francesco Pesaro (1740-1799), Venice; sold by him in 1842 to
Edward Cheney (1803-1884), Badger Hall, Shropshire; by descent to his brother-in-law
Colonel Alfred Capel-Cure (1826-1896), Blake Hall, Essex.
probably Messrs. B. T. Batsford, London; Christie’s, London, 14 July 1914, part of lot 49.
with E. Parsons and Sons, London.
Richard C. Paine (1893-1966), Boston; then by descent to
John D. Constable (1927-2016), Cambridge MA; then by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

Like the drawing in the previous lot, this sheet was also part of a now disbound album of drawings of the series Sole figure vestite. Several similar drawings are in the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum (see for example, inv. x1948-827; C. Whistler, in Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 2014, no. 79, ill.).