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Standing man in a turban,
ca. 1760
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696–1770; born Venice, Italy; died Madrid, Spain
x1948-859
Following a Venetian workshop tradition that dates back to the mid-fifteenth century, Tiepolo classified drawings of single figures in different albums for his own and his followers’ future use. These examples belong to two groups of drawings by Tiepolo, which were acquired by Dan Fellows Platt in London in the 1920s and came from two albums that had been previously broken up. The smaller group consists of single, standing draped figures, while the larger group features figures foreshortened from below. As none of these sheets can be connected with a particular fresco, they probably functioned as a database of poses for figures standing or seated on clouds, which could then be drawn upon when a large ceiling project was undertaken by the studio.
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Title
Standing man in a turban
Dates
ca. 1760
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper
Dimensions
21.9 x 14.8 cm (8 5/8 x 5 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-859
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Possibly until 1852, Count Algarotti-Corniani, Venice, Italy. 1852, bought by Cheney. 29 April, 1885, Cheney Sale, Sotheby’s, lot 1024. 14 July, 1914, Christie's, lot 49; purchased by Parsons; between 1922-1926, purchased by Dan Fellows Platt; Bequeathed to Princeton University Art Museum
- Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. 1885. Catalogue of the collection of engravings, etchings & drawings of the late Edward Cheney, Esq., which will be sold by auction. 29 April - 5 May 1885, London., p. 50, lot. 1024
- Catalogue of valuable manuscripts and books: the property of the late Alexander Allan Webbe, Esq. of 19 Portland Place, W., including the Lady Nelson papers consisting of over two hundred autograph letters from Admiral Viscount Nelson to his wife, and other valuable documents relating to the same, (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1914)., lot. 49
- George Knox, "Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo at Princeton", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 23, no. 1 (1964): p. 2-28., p. 8, no. 2; p. 12 (illus.)
- Jacob Bean, Italian drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University; 106 selected examples, (New York: October House, 1966)., no. 14
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: pp. 9-10, no. 24 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
