Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
A Servant before a Group of Orientals

CultureItalian (Venetian)
Titles
  • A Servant before a Group of Orientals
Datec. 1745-50
MediumPen and ink, brush and ink, and gray wash on antique laid paper
DimensionsSheet (irregular): 8 1/8 × 9 7/8 in. (20.6 × 25.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Cecily E. Horton
Object number2017.381
Non exposé

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ProvenanceFrom an album of miscellaneous drawings, England, 18th century; Sir Gilbert Frankland Lewis, 3rd Bt., Harpton Court, Kington, Herfordshire, England; by inheritance to his nephew, Sir Henry Duff Gordon, Bt., Harpton Court, Kington; Sale, London, Sotheby's, 19 February, 1936, Lot 69; purchased by A. Paul Oppé, London, July 1937; by descent to private collection, until 2016; [Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London]; purchased by Cecily Horton, Houston, August 2017;
Exhibition HistoryLondon, Royal Academy of Arts, The Paul Oppé Collection, 1958, no.364 (as ‘Homage’, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo).
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Exhibition of Works from the Paul Oppé Collection: English Water Colours and Old Master Drawings, 1961, no.144 (as ‘Homage’, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo).
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, top right corner: 2148
Verso: Watermark, center right edge: [unidentified, upside down, C B with line between letters]

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