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Hollyhock plant

Maker

(artist)
1727-1804

Title

Hollyhock plant

Medium

black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.9 cm
Width: 16.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.165

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Hollyhocks

Provenance

acquired by Colnaghi (London) between May and September 1934; Mrs Clive Pascall; her sale, Sotheby's (London), 23 May 1951, lot 39; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978) (£18); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Knox, George, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: a study and catalogue raisonné of the chalk drawings, Oxford 1980
no. M.292

Knox, George, 'The Tasso Cycles of Giambattista Tiepolo and Gianantonio Guardi' in 'The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies', 1978 - pp. 49ff; 9
ill.

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 165 ...More

Byam Shaw, James, The drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London 1962
p. 64n1

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 165
pl. CXXVI ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto, lower left corner: a sceptre topped by a spade and crescent, flanked by an “I” terminating in circles and “P” (not found in Heawood).

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, signed by the artist? (described as a 'peculiar' signature by Knox): “Domo Tiepolo”. Verso: upper left corner, graphite, Colnaghi number: “A 7052 / C/-/-”; upper right corner, graphite, number circled: “3 / E/-/-”.

Collector's mark: none.

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