French School
18th century
A Farmhouse or Factory on a River with Barrels on a Loading Dock
18 x 24 3/4 inches (457 x 629 mm)
Red chalk counterproof on paper, folded in half.
1993.82
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Believed by Janos Scholz to be a counterproof of a drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, but actually having nothing to do with any other drawing by the Tiepolo family. Instead, this was a reused piece of paper (now believed to be a counterproof of a drawing by a French artist, and akin to the Watteau copies after Domenico Tiepolo) that held a large group of Tiepolo drawings the de Mestral collection. When Scholz bought a set of ex-de Mestral Tiepolo drawings from Rene de Cerenville, this sheet came with them.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, on left half of fold, in black chalk, "Dessins de Tiepolo"; numbered in graphite, 13"; on other half of fold, in graphite, "Disegni / da Tiepolo figlio invent... / o copiati del Padre"; in black ink, illegible; in pen and brown ink, "160 a / in[?] / go"; on folded sheet of laid paper in which counterproof is contained, in pencil, "Dessins / de / Jean Baptiste Tiepolo / et de / Jean-Dominiquin Tiepolo / [de/u?] Tiepoletto"; below that, in pencil, "Men...[illegible] Henri[?] de Mestral // with arrow pointing to previous inscription, in the hand of János Scholz, "René de Cérenville's hand // This and the enclosed folder came from the de Mestral family. / the curly[?] one is [the] original w[r]apper for Tiepolo drawings, / the "calques" are after G.B. Tiepolo.- / János Scholz".
Watermark: Letters, possibly "A V" "S"?
Watermark: Letters, possibly "A V" "S"?
Associated names
St.-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Cérenville, Ferdinand de, former owner.
Cérenville, René de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Cérenville, Ferdinand de, former owner.
Cérenville, René de, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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