Male Nude Leaning on His Elbow (verso), 1752/1753

Not on View

Medium

red chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 28.8 x 36.8 cm (11 5/16 x 14 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.170.b

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in brown ink: G.B.T./f.l.[1 florin] C.M. [Conventions-Münze], and No 2793

Provenance

Johann Dominik Bossi, Munich; by descent to his daughter, Maria Theresia Caroline and her husband Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen, Stuttgart; (their sale, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 27 March 1882); Dr. Oscar Eisenmann, Cassel. Wilhelm Lübke, Stuttgart. (Joseph Baer & Sons, Frankfurt. Dr. Hans Wendland, Lugano; (his sale, Ball & Graupe, Berlin, 24-25 April 1931, no. 103). Dr. Erich Alport, Oxford; (sold by his estate, Christie's London, 4 July 1972, no. 186); Herbert List [1903-1975], Munich (Lugt 4063); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Alport, Erich, Dr.
Ball & Graupe
Beyerlen, Carl Christian Friedrich
Bossi, Johann Dominik
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Eisenmann, Oscar, Dr.
Gutekunst, H. G.
Joseph Baer & Sons
List, Herbert
Lübke, Wilhelm
Ratjen, Ursula and Adolf
Stiftung Ratjen
Wendland, Hans

Exhibition History

1979: Zeichnungen Italienischer Meister aus den Sammlungen Schloos Fachsenfeld, Stiftung Ratjen Vaduz, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1979, no. 37.

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 12.