Currently not on view
Reclining youth with a staff, seen from below
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696–1770; born Venice, Italy; died Madrid, Spain
x1948-850
Information
Title
Reclining youth with a staff, seen from below
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash on cream
laid paper
Dimensions
20.8 x 16 cm (8 3/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-850
Culture
Type
Materials
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
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- 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.)
- Jacob Bean, Italian drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University; 106 selected examples, (New York: October House, 1966)., no. 45
- 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)
- Andrea Carlino, Anna Luppi, Roberto Paolo Ciardi, Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, et. al., Visioni Anatomiche: le forme del corpo negli anni del Barocco, (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana editoriale, 2011).
