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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Head of a Boy

Description

Maker

Attributed to Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727-1804)

Title

Head of a Boy

Year

before 1780

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

chalk

Supports

Dimensions

24.8 x 18.6 cm (9 3/4 x 7 5/16 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

73.078

Type

Provenance

… - 1882, Bossi-Beyerlen collection, Stuttgart.

1882, Sale Bossi-Beyerlen auction, Stuttgart, on 03/27/1882, Lot 433.

… - ca. 1927, Collection of Dr. Hans Wendland, Lugano. Catalogue raisonée. Detlev Baron von Hadeln, The Drawings of G.B. Tiepolo, vol. 1 (New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929), 24, plate 165.

… - 1930, Savile Gallery, London.

… - 1953, Collection of Lord Greene. According to Agnew’s, London archive.

1953, Purchased by Agnew’s, London at Sotheby’s, London on 04/22/1953, Lot 19.

1953 - 1973, Purchased by Mrs. Murray S. Danforth, Providence, RI from Agnew’s, London on 07/17/1953.

1973, Gift to the RISD Museum by Mrs. Murray S. Danforth on 09/18/1973.

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

From Dürer to Van Gogh
Gifts from Eliza Greene Radeke and Helen Metcalf Danforth
Jun 05, 2008 – Oct 26, 2008

Label copy

Drawing was an essential part of the artistic practice of Venice’s leading 18th-century painters, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and his son Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. Both kept albums of drawings bound by theme or subject, which were retained in the family studio as a repertoire that could be used in later commissions. This sheet may be grouped with a number of chalk head studies of the same young man by the elder Tiepolo, although the handling of the chalk and emphasis on surface is more closely related to his son’s approach to drawing.

Old Master Drawings
Sep 02, 1983 – Oct 16, 1983

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Tombstone

Attributed to Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727-1804)
Head of a Boy, before 1780
Red and white chalks on blue laid paper
24.8 x 18.6 cm (9 3/4 x 7 5/16 inches)
Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth 73.078

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