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Two studies of the head of a youth

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1696-1770

Formerly attributed to
Lorenzo Tiepolo (artist)
1736-1772

Title

Two studies of the head of a youth

Date of Production

(?) 1762 - 1766

Medium

black and white chalk on blue laid paper, the two right corners cut away

Dimensions

Height: 33 cm
Width: 26.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2887

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

possibly given by the artist's son Domenico to Johann Dominik Bossi, Munich (1767-1853); by descent to his daughter Maria Theresa Caroline (1825-1881) and her husband, Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (1826-1881); their estate sale, H.G. Gutekunst (Stuttgart), 27 March 1882; a 'foreign nobleman', possibly Prince Trivulzio, whose property was consigned by Pollak and Winternitz (Vienna) to Sotheby's (London), 13 July 1937, lot 39; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Knox, George, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: a study and catalogue raisonné of the chalk drawings, Oxford 1980
no. M.305

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre: three crescents in ascending size order (similar to Heawood 863-865 - Venice 1610-1686).

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, graphite: “GBT”. Verso: lower left edge, graphite: “923” [suggested in Knox 1980 to be related to the lot in the 1882 Bossi-Beyerlen sale]; lower centre edge, brown ink: “2. [this crossed out] f.1. No 2942.” [currency in florins, found only on Bossi-Beyerlen drawings and suggested by Knox 1980 to be Domenico’s own code].

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