About the Artwork
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)
Paintings
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.
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