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Angels on clouds

Maker

Copy after
(Artists)
1727-1804

Formerly attributed to
(Artists)
1696-1770

Title

Angels on clouds

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 46 cm
Width: 32.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3559

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

unidentified collector, L.521a; Benno Geiger, Italy and Vienna (1882-1965); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 7 - 10 December 1920, lot 332; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 16 May 1944 (£8); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Tiepolo and his circle: drawings in American collections, Harvard University Art Museum; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1996-1997, 1996
p. 278 under no. 102

Knox, George, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: a study and catalogue raisonné of the chalk drawings, Oxford 1980
no. M.164

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Verso, upper left corner, upside down: single-line letters “AS” (similar to Heawood 3084 except the “A” terminates in circles rather than curlicues - Italy? No date).

Inscription: Verso: upper left corner, graphite, Colnaghi number: “A2720”; upper right, graphite: “25”; upper centre, blue crayon: “332”; centre, graphite: “Caen”; right of centre, graphite: “T”; right centre edge, graphite, unclear: “Murolino [?] / C. Tendim[...]”; lower right, graphite: “minio”; lower left, graphite: “azuro / remnen[?]”; lower left corner, graphite: “22x”; lower centre edge, graphite: “11”; lower right corner, graphite, Colnaghi number erased: “A.2720”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in purple ink: unidentified collector’s mark (L.521a).

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