Head of a Boy with a Turban

Johann Dominik Bossi (died 1853), Munich

Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States (New York, 1947), pp. 178-179, no. 89 (ill.).

Otto Benesch, Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America (New York, 1947), p. 33, no. 32 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, p. 25, cat. 51, pl. IV, cat. by Carl O. Schniewind.

sold to Dr. Hans Wendland, Lugano, after 1919 [according to Wedland’s oral history and Knox 1980]. Sold by A & R Ball, New York, to the Art Institute, 1942.

Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Art Museums, "Tiepolo and His Circle; Drawings in American Collections," October 12-December 15, 1996, p. 288, cat. 107 (ill.), cat. by Bernard Aikema; New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, January 13-April 13, 1997.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Eighteenth Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985.

George Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings (Oxford, 1980), p. 275, no. M.552.

by descent to his daughter, Maria Theresa Caroline Bossi (died 1881), and her husband, Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (died 1881), Stuttgart [according to Knox 1980]

probably sold by the estate of Wilhelm Lübke to Joseph Baer & Sons, Frankfurt [according to Wendland’s oral history and Knox 1980]

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 122, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art.

Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 80, no. 122, pl. 129.

Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1979), p. 51, no. 2B8.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Isntitute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 15, as "Turbaned Head."