Old Master and British Works on Paper

Old Master and British Works on Paper

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Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo

The head of a young man or woman

Lot Closed

January 26, 08:06 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo

Venice 1736 - 1776 Madrid

The head of a young man or woman


Red chalk, heightened with white, on faded blue paper;

bears numbering in pencil, upper centre: 21

275 by 206 mm; 10⅞ by 8⅛ in.

Possibly Armand Louis de Mestral de Saint-Saphorin (1738–1806), Vaud, Switzerland;
Dr. Walter Hugelshofer (1899-1987), Zürich;
sale, London, Phillips, 6 July 1994, lot 265 (as Attributed to Lorenzo Tiepolo);
with John R. Cassayd-Smith, London, by 1994 (as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo),
where acquired by the present owner
G. Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings, Oxford 1980, vol. I, p. 194, cat. no. K.19 (as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo)