Provenance
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804), Venice; Johann Dominik Bossi (known as Domenico Bossi; 1767–1853), Munich, from 1804; by descent to his daughter, Maria Theresa Caroline Bossi (1823–1881) and her husband, Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (1826–1881); sold, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, Mar. 27, 1882. Paul Albert Besnard (1849–1934); sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, May 31, 1934, lot 312. Given to Frédérique Weber; by descent to her grandson, Jean-Louis F. Doublet, Chevy Chase, MD; sold through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Sept. 29, 2014; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
The Head of a Young Man in Profile to the Left (recto); Studies of Allegorical Figures (verso)
1749/50 (recto); 1750/53 (verso)
Accession Number
244913
Medium
Red chalk, with touches of white chalk (recto and verso), on blue laid paper with blind incising around recto
Dimensions
22.7 × 24.2 cm (8 15/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
