GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)
A seated woman seen from below
pen and brown ink, brown wash
6¹⁄₂ x 7¹⁄₄ in. (16.3 x 18.5 cm)

Probably given by the artist or his son Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) to
Somaschi convent at Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, where the former’s son Giuseppe Maria Tiepolo lived ; after the suppression of the convent to 1810 to
Count Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1834), Venice.
Antonio Canova (1757-1822), Venice; by his descent to his half-brother,
Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori Canova (1775-1858), Venice.
Francesco Pesaro (1740-1799), Venice; sold by him to in 1842 to
Edward Cheney (1803-1884), Badger Hall, Shropshire; by descent to his brother-in-law
Colonel Alfred Capel-Cure (1826-1896), Blake Hall, Essex; Sotheby’s, London, 29 April 1885, part of lot 1024 (bought in); Christie’s, London, 14 July 1914, part of lot 49.
with E. Parsons, London.
Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1882-1950), London (L. 2274a).
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1945.