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The image shows a person sitting on a chair in profile view, writing on a table with a quill. The individual has exaggerated facial features, long hair, and is dressed in loose-fitting clothing. They are seated on a wooden chair with an inkpot on the table in front of them. The background is plain.
National Gallery of Art · Drawing
A Venetian Lawyer at His Desk
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Date
- 1755/1760
- Medium
- pen and black ink with gray wash on laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 20.5 x 14 cm (8 1/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 1984.3.67
- Credit line
- Julius S. Held Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
- Time span
- 1751 to 1775
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- Baroque
- Venetian
- caricature
- Political
Provenance
Possibly Dpmenico Tiepolo; possibly sold to Count Bernardino Coriani-Algaroti; possibly by whom sold 1852 to Edward Cheney [1803-1884]; his brother in law Alfred Capel-Cure; 9sold, Sotheby's, London, 29 April 1885, no. 1024); Marques of Bredalbane, Langdon House, Duns, Berwichshire; (sale, Dowells, Edinburgh, 25 March 1925, no. 1004); purchased by John Grant, Edinburgh; purchased by Arthur Kay, Edinburgh c. 1926; (his sale, Christie's, London, 8-9 April 1943, part of no. 248); Frederick Stern; Julius S. Held [1905-2002], Old Bennington, VT; 1984 to NGA.
Inscription
upper right verso on hinge in graphite, circled: 82
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