GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (1727-1804)

STUDY OF A MAN'S HEAD
Bears collector's stamp l.l. (L.2604a)
Red chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper
20.5 x 13.5 cm
 
PROVENANCE:
William Bateson (1861-1926), London (Lugt 2604a);
His sale, London, Sotheby's, 23-24.04.1929, lot 109 (see fig. I above);
Where acquired by Savile Gallery, London (for £22);
Possibly Stephen Higgins, Paris (by 1951) [cf. Knox, p.226, M.142];
Karl Eric Maison, London (by 1956);
Private Collection, Wiltshire
 
LITERATURE:
G. Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: A Study & Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings, p.212, no. M.20 (as Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo) and possibly M.142 (based on the description)