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- Artist
- Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (attributed to)
(Italian, 1727 - 1804) - Title
- Head of a Female Saint in Nun's Habit (recto)
- Date
- ca. 1760
- Medium
- Red and white chalk on gray-blue paper
- Dimensions
- 6 1/4 x 5 7/16 in. Overall
- Credit
- Gift of Miss Charlotte C. Gregory
- Accession No.
- 64.15.10
- Classification
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Geography
- Italy
Related
<SPAN>27 March 1882, possibly sold in Bossi-Beyerlin sale (Stuttgart)[1]; Before 1919, purchased by Charles Fairfax Murray (London); 18 February 1920, sold via F.R. Meatyard (London) to Charles Noble Gregory (Northbrook, IL); by 1942, Wisconsin State Historical Society; 1964, Charlotte C. Gregory (Northbrook, IL) [niece of Charles Noble Gregory] through inheritance; 1964, gifted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; 1967, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called the Chazen Museum of Art] [1] According to George Knox, <SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline">Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition</SPAN>, March-May 1970, Fogg Art Museum, p.xiv: “All chalk drawings (by Tiepolo) which have entered the general art market seem to come from a Bossi source.” However, this drawing lacks the documentation to confirm that provenance line.<BR/></SPAN>
- Blumenthal, Arthur R. "A Newly Identified Drawing by G. B. Tiepolo." Bulletin Elvehjem Art Center 1971-1972. Elvehjem Art Center (1972): 16-21. pp. 16-21
- Old Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 7/23/2005–10/9/2005
- Hand of the Master, The: Drawings from the Elvehjem’s Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 5/11/1985–7/28/1985
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