Study of a left hand
Maker
Attributed to
(artist)
1696-1770
(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
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
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.
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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