A STANDING MAN SEEN FROM BEHIND, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

VENICE 1696 - 1770 MADRID

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Pen and brown ink and grey wash over traces of black chalk, all four corners cut;
bears inscription in pen and brown ink on the back of the mount: Tiepoletto, veneziano, 1760 and also bears letters and numbering: 294 fr 9 = 9e
195 by 103 mm

Provenance:
Probably from the album Tomo terzo de caricature;
probably Count Bernardino Algarotti Corniani;
probably Breadalbane family;
Langton House, Dun, Berwickshire;
sale, Edinburgh, Dowells, 25 March 1925, lot 1004 (bought by J. Grant, bookseller, Edinburgh);
Arthur Kay, Edinburgh;
sale, London, Christie's, 9 April 1943;
Private Collection, Venice;
Private Collection, Florence