A Seated Old Man, Pointing with his Right Hand and Other Figures

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A Seated Old Man, Pointing with his Right Hand and Other Figures

18th century

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Italian

Italian

Pen and brown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Sheet: 9 7/16 × 7 1/2 inches (24 × 19.1 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1SDR213

This work is in the public domain.

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Provenance

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice, Italy). Johann Dominik Bossi and Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (Stuttgart, Germany)

March 27, 1882, Bossi-Beyerlen sale (Stuttgart, Germany). March 1889, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England). James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 106, no. 48.

Shaw, James Byam and George Knox. Italian Eighteenth Century Drawings. Vol. 6 of the Robert Lehman Collection. New York and Princeton, 1987, p. 30, no. 1 (fig. 10).

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Italian, A Seated Old Man, Pointing with his Right Hand and Other Figures, 18th century, pen and brown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR213.

A Seated Old Man, Pointing with his Right Hand and Other Figures
A Seated Old Man, Pointing with his Right Hand and Other Figures