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Terisio Pignatti, I disegni veneziani del Settecento, (Treviso: Canova, 1966?).

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Terisio Pignatti, I disegni veneziani del Settecento, (Treviso: Canova, 1966?).

, p. 177, fig. 58","date":1966,"id":5501,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/862418"},{"boilertext":"

George Knox, Tiepolo: a bicentenary exhibition, 1770-1970: drawings, mainly from American collections, by Giambattista Tiepolo and the members of his circle, (Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1970).

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George Knox, Tiepolo: a bicentenary exhibition, 1770-1970: drawings, mainly from American collections, by Giambattista Tiepolo and the members of his circle, (Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1970).

, no. 8 (illus.)","date":1970,"id":5503,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/117735"},{"boilertext":"Terisio Pignatti, La scuola veneta, (Milano: Fabbri, 1970).","citation":"Terisio Pignatti, La scuola veneta, (Milano: Fabbri, 1970)., p. 74, fig. 29; p. 91","date":1970,"id":5504,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/386507"},{"boilertext":"Michael Baxandall, Shadows and enlightenment, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995).","citation":"Michael Baxandall, Shadows and enlightenment, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995)., pl. 3 (color); p. 48-50; p. 49, fig. 14","date":1995,"id":5505,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/31409551"},{"boilertext":"John David Farmer and Richard C. Mühlberger, The Tiepolos: painters to princes and prelates, (Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1978).","citation":"John David Farmer and Richard C. Mühlberger, The Tiepolos: painters to princes and prelates, (Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1978)., p. 85, cat. no. 38; p. 21 (illus.)","date":1978,"id":5506,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/4183985"},{"boilertext":"Jacob Bean, Italian drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University; 106 selected examples, (New York: October House, 1966).","citation":"Jacob Bean, Italian drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University; 106 selected examples, (New York: October House, 1966)., no. 75","date":1966,"id":691,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/686041"},{"boilertext":"Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014).","citation":"Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 183, cat. no. 76; p. 184 (illus.)","date":2014,"id":1855,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/869726410"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[],"department":"Prints and Drawings","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199327,"term":"Prints and Drawings","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199321,"term":"European Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1700-1800","dateend":1722,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Roman Soldier","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":"","objectnumber":"x1948-842","inscribed":"Inscribed recto, lower left, in dark brown ink:\r\nTiepolo fece","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"

Count Bernardino Algarotti-Corniani, Venice ?; Edward Cheney, Badger Hall, Shropshire ?; E. Parsons & Sons, London, 1923; Dan Fellows Platt, stamps (L. 750a and 2066b) verso, lower left, in blue.'
Purchased by Platt from Parsons 1923.;

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From Pignatti, “I disegni veneziani…”: Dateable c. 1725. (See reference Bib. 4577);

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From Baxandall, “Shadows and enlightenment”: reproduces copy of Princeton original, dates it “”firmly in the 1720s.” (See reference Bib. 4581);

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