Description:

red chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper
132 x 178 mm.

Provenance:

Benigno Bossi (1727 – 1792) ?
Henry S. Williams, New York
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 20 March 1973, lot 155 (£850 to Stein)
Adolf Stein, Crans-sur-Sierre
Purchased from the above by George Walker in 1977
By descent

Literature

George Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: a study and catalogue raisonnée of the chalk drawings, Oxford University Press, 1980, Vol. I, page 249, no. M. 332: “Perhaps a study for the Throne-Room at Madrid”

Exhibitions

Ashmolean Museum, For the Love of Drawing: Drawings from an Oxfordshire Private Collection, 3 June to 18 August 2002