Currently not on view
Seated Figure on a Cloud, Seen from Below
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696–1770; born Venice, Italy; died Madrid, Spain
x1948-834
Information
Title
Seated Figure on a Cloud, Seen from Below
Medium
Pen, brown ink and brown wash
Dimensions
26.3 x 19.2 cm (10 3/8 x 7 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-834
Inscription
lower left: 66, in gray ink
Marks/Labels/Seals
Watermark: three crescents in backing
Possibly until 1852, Count Algarotti-Corniani, Venice, Italy.
possibly 1852, bought by Edward Cheney, Badger Hall, Shropshire;
29 April, 1885, Cheney Sale, Sotheby’s, lot 1024.
14 July, 1914, Christie's, lot 49.
1922, purchased by E. Parsons & Sons, London;
between 1922-1926, purchased by Dan Fellows Platt;
Bequeathed to Princeton University Art Museum
- 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. 28, no. 86; p. 21 (illus.)
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: p. 139, no. 448 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
