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Standing Female Figure seen from Below

DrawingsItalian18th century

Standing Female Figure seen from Below

18th century

Artists

Giovanni Battista TiepoloArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

27.2 × 19.4 cm (10 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Possibly Count Bernardino Algarotti-Corniari, Venice. Possibly Edward Cheney, Shropshire, by descent; to Alfred Capel-Cure, Essex, sold [through Sotheby's, London, April 29, 1885, part of lot 1024]. Possibly [B.T. Batsford, London], sold [through Christie's, London, July 14, 1914, part of lot 49]; to [E. Parsons and Sons, London]. [Steinlitz, Paris], sold; to [Hill-Stone, New York, 2002], sold; to Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, 2011, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

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