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Bearded man facing left (recto)
Rinaldo abandoning Armida (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1696-1770

Title

Bearded man facing left (recto)
Rinaldo abandoning Armida (verso)

Date of Production

(circa) 1740 - 1742

Medium

brush with black and brown ink wash and bodycolour (recto), black chalk (verso)

Dimensions

Height: 27.5 cm
Width: 20.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.169

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






folk tales

Provenance

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; acquired from there by Count Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1834); acquired from him in an exchange by Antonio Canova (1754-1822); by descent to Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori-Canova (1775-1858); purchased from him by Francesco Pesaro, Venice; purchased from him by Edward Cheney, Badger Hall, Shropshire (1803-1884),1842; by descent to Colonel Alfred Capel Cure, Blake Hall, Ongar, Essex, (1826-1896); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 29 April 1885, 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, lot 49 (three volumes); purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (London); Savile Gallery, May 1928; passed to Richard Owen (Paris); sold on behalf of his estate by Arthur Tooth & Sons (London) to Colnaghi (London), 11 January 1952; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 12 January 1952 (£1,000, along with D.1978.PG.152 and PG.154); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Tiepolo et Guardi, Galerie Cailleux, Paris, November 1952
p. 49 under no. 39

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 169
pls. CXXX, CXXXI

Byam Shaw, James, The drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London 1962
p. 61n2 (recto) ...More

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 169

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

Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982- 30/01/1983, cat. by Helen Braham ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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