About the Artwork
The Head of Saint Torpe Saved by Angels and Restored to Archbishop Frederigo
between 1706 and 1770
Gianbettino Cignaroli
1706-1770
Italian
Unknown
Gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper
Sheet: 10 7/16 × 11 15/16 inches (26.5 × 30.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR191
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper center: 87 Inscribed, in pen and black ink, verso, upper center: Cignaroli No 2743. f 2. Inscribed, in pen and black ink, verso, lower right: J.B. Pittoni
Watermark: [coat of arms]
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, pp. 102-103, no. 45.
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Gianbettino Cignaroli, The Head of Saint Torpe Saved by Angels and Restored to Archbishop Frederigo, between 1706 and 1770, gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR191.
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