GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO | A STANDING BEARDED MAN, LOOKING TO THE LEFT

GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO
Venice 1696 - 1770 Madrid
A STANDING BEARDED MAN, LOOKING TO THE LEFT

Pen and brown ink and wash over traces of black chalk
220 by 132 mm; 8⅝ by 5¼ in

Condition Report:
Laid down. Ink stain lower right corner and at the right margin. Light staining at the other three corners of the sheet. Otherwise pen and ink and wash still relatively strong.
Sold in a wooden gilded frame.

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Provenance:
Probably Count Algarotti-Corniani, Venice;

Edward Cheney, Badger Hall, Shropshire and by descent to Colonel Alfred Capel Cure;

sale, London, Christie's, 14 July 1914;

E. Parsons and Sons, London