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King kneeling

Maker

(artist)
1727-1804

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1696-1770

Title

King kneeling

Date of Production

c. 1753-1754

Medium

red and white chalk with stumping on blue laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 31.1 cm
Width: 22.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.167

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





Provenance

possibly given by the artist 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; consigned by Nebehay (Vienna) to Gilhofer & Ranschburg (Lucerne), 28 June 1934, lot 294; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

See Brief Description for further notes regarding the provenance.

Exhibition History

The Value of Art, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 24/06/1999-30/08/1999

The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 29/01/1982-25/07/1982

Literature

The Value of Art, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1999

Pedrocco, Filippo, I disegni di Giandomenico Tiepolo, Milan 1990

The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1982
cat. no. 183 ...More

Knox, George, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: a study and catalogue raisonné of the chalk drawings, Oxford 1980
no. M.293

Byam Shaw, James, The drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London 1962
no. 4 and p. 24
fig. 4

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 167
pl. CXXVIII

Alte Pinakothek, Ältere Pinakothek München: amtlicher Katalog, Munich 1936
p. 258 under no. 1159 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: upper centre, difficult to see: single-line letter "A" terminating in circles (see tracing in file).

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper left corner, graphite: “48 XXIV / [arrow] 11[...]”; upper right corner, graphite, unclear, second two lines crossed through: “B. Münstion [?] Sack SIDE / Sei[...] / [...]“; lower left, graphite, underlined: “1369” [suggested in Knox 1980 to be related to the lot in the 1882 Bossi-Beyerlen sale]; lower centre edge, brown ink: “f. L. C. M. No. 3393.” [currency in florins, found only on Bossi-Beyerlen drawings and suggested by Knox 1980 to be Domenico’s own code]; lower right corner, graphite: “I / N 2”.

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