Head of an Old Man, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Head of an Old Man
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Head of an Old Man, 1751 – 1760


Dimensions
66 x 51.5 cm
Physical Description
Canvas
Inventory Number
1395
Acquisition
Acquired in 1906 as a bequest from Julius Lemmé
Status
On display, 2nd upper level, Old Masters, room 14

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About the Acquisition

Councillor of Commerce Julius Lemmé of Frankfurt, who died in Odessa in 1905, left this study to the Städel Museum in his will. In 1924, his eighty-two-year-old widow, Wilhelmine Lemmé – by then destitute – approached the museum administration with the plea that it should pay her a pension in view of the one-time gift. Advising her that it was under no legal obligation, the administration approved a monthly payment of fifty Reichsmarks, raised only two years later to 100 Reichsmarks. The payments continued until Wilhelmine Lemmé’s death in 1933.

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02.12.2024