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Female Figure with Mirror and Serpent and Two Companions

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770

Female Figure with Mirror and Serpent and Two Companions

7 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (185 x 172 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over graphite, on paper.
IV, 131

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
One of a series of 108 drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo from an album bearing the title, "TIEPOLO DESSINS ORIGINAUX", inscribed by Edward Cheney, "E.C. Venice 1852 May 31 / bought from the Conte Corniani Algarotti".
Associated names
Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712-1764, former owner.
Algarotti, Bonomo, 1706-1776, former owner.
Algarotti-Corniani, Maria, former owner.
Corniani, Bernardino, conte, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Cure, Alfred Capel, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 131.
Cambridge, MA., Fogg Art Museum, Tiepolo, A Bicentenary Exhibition, 1770-1970, 1970, p. xx, no. 76, repr.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings from New York Collections III, The 18th Century in Italy, 1971, p. 63, no. 145.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department