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Three angels

Maker

(artist)
1696-1770

Title

Three angels

Date of Production

1710-1770

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.6 cm
Width: 28.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.556

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

probably mounted by the artist in an album and given to his son, Giuseppe Tiepolo, friar in the convent of the Somaschi, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, 1762; kept in convent of the Somaschi until its suppression, 1810; possibly acquired there by Count Bernardino Algarotti-Corniani; purchased from him by Edward Cheney, Badger Hall (1803-1885), in Venice, 31 May 1852; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 29 April 1885, probably part of lot 1024; purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (London); possibly acquired in Dublin by William Fagg, Sydenham; possibly B.T. Batsford (London)'s sale, Christie's (London), 14 July 1914, part of lot 49 [however, Batsford Tiepolos tend to have a stamp and this does not]; purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£8.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971

unnumbered typescript - title was possibly 'A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections [as exhibited in 1964 at University of Sussex, Falmer]', Nottingham University, 1966

A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections, University of Sussex, Falmer, 1964 ...More

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

Eton, 1939 ...Less

Literature

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 90

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 46

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 15 ...More

Hadeln, Detlev Baron von, The drawings of G.B. Tiepolo, Paris 1928
Illus. pl. 37 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: Centre: “SV”. Mount (removed, in box of mounts from P&D): centre: "A S" with a cross above.

Collector's mark: Mount (removed, in box of mounts from P&D), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Mount (removed, in box of mounts in P&D), Recto: lower right, graphite: “15 / 0/1310”; lower right corner, brown ink: “106”; Verso: upper left corner, brown ink, cut off: “100La”.

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