Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006193The Head of a Young Man in Profile to the Left (recto); Studies of Allegorical Figures (verso)
Provenance
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804), Venice; Johann Dominik Bossi (known as Domenico Bossi; 1767–1853), Munich, from 1804; by descent to his daughter, Maria Theresa Caroline Bossi (1823–1881) and her husband, Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (1826–1881); sold, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, Mar. 27, 1882. Paul Albert Besnard (1849–1934); sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 31, 1934, lot 312. Given to Frédérique Weber; by descent to her grandson, Jean-Louis F. Doublet, Chevy Chase, MD; sold through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Sept. 29, 2014; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Venise au XVIIIième siècle: Peintures, dessins et gravures des collections françaises, 1971, cat. 280 (incorrectly illustrated). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 38, cat. 14, p. 137, GC 64, traveled to Berkeley, CA, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Publications
George Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings (Clarendon Press, 1980), vol. 1, pp. 215, M. 48; 332, under X. 40.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo / Italian, 1696–1770
- Date
- 1749/50 (recto); 1750/53 (verso)
- Medium
- Red chalk, with touches of white chalk (recto and verso), on blue laid paper with blind incising around recto
- Dimensions
- 22.7 × 24.2 cm (8 15/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.868
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