Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)
A head of a man in profile, looking to the left
red chalk, stumping, traces of white chalk, on light blue-green paper
11 x 7¾ in. (27.9 x 19.5 cm.)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)
A head of a man in profile, looking to the left
red chalk, stumping, traces of white chalk, on light blue-green paper
11 x 7¾ in. (27.9 x 19.5 cm.)
Giovanni Domenico Bossi, with associated price code 'X.12 No. 3467' (verso), then by descent to
Maria Theresa Karoline Bossi.
Karl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen; H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 27-8 March 1882.
with the Matthiesen Gallery, London, date unknown.
Possibly G. Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings, Oxford, 1980, no. M.258.
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