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Study of a left hand

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1696-1770

Title

Study of a left hand

Date of Production

1710 - 1770

Medium

red chalk with stumping on blue laid paper, the edges unevenly cut

Dimensions

Height: 9 cm
Width: 14.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4440

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, presumably part of lot 637 ('Studien von Händern, Füssen, und Thieren'); ; purchased there by Dr O. Eisenmann, Cassel; Dr Edmund Schilling (1888-1974), 1948; purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Knox, George, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: a study and catalogue raisonné of the chalk drawings, Oxford 1980
no. M.165

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, brown ink: “92. Xr. 4” [currency in Austrian kreutzers, written “Xrs”, found only on Bossi-Beyerlen drawings and suggested by Knox 1980 to be Domenico’s own code]; lower left, graphite: “852” [suggested in Knox 1980 to be related to the lot in the 1882 Bossi-Beyerlen sale]. Verso: centre, graphite: “397”; right centre edge, graphite, unclear: “55” [?].

Collector's mark: none.

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