Details
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727–1804)
Saint Anthony of Padua with the Christ Child in glory with angels
signed 'Dom.o Tiepolo f.' (lower left); numbered '101' (upper left)
black chalk, pen and black ink, black and grey wash
24.4 x 18.1 cm (9 5/8 x 7 1/8 in.)
Provenance
Possibly the artist’s uncle, Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), Venice, circa 1783, as part of an album.
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), London and Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, as part of an album.
William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp, Madresfield Court, Worcestershire; Christie’s, London, 15 June 1965, lot 21 (sold for 800 gns. to Maas).
Anonymous sale; London, Sotheby’s, 3 July 1996, lot 95 (bought in).
with Flavia Ormond, London (Italian Old Master Drawings 1500-1850, 1997, no. 11, ill.).
Private collection, U.S.A.
Literature
W. Schulz, ‘Tiepolo-Probleme. Ein Antonius-Album von Giandomenico Tiepolo’, Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, XL, 1978, p. 72.
J. Byam Shaw ‘Some Unpublished Drawings by Giandomenico Tiepolo’, Master Drawings, XVII, no. 3, Autumn 1979, p. 240, under no. 2.
Exhibited
Stanford University, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Classic Taste. Drawings and Decorative Arts from the Collection of Horace Brock, 2000, unpaginated.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Splendor and Elegance. European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, 2009, no. 96, ill. (essay by Clifford S. Ackley).
Details
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727–1804)
Saint Anthony of Padua with the Christ Child in glory with angels
signed 'Dom.o Tiepolo f.' (lower left); numbered '101' (upper left)
black chalk, pen and black ink, black and grey wash
24.4 x 18.1 cm (9 5/8 x 7 1/8 in.)
Provenance
Possibly the artist’s uncle, Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), Venice, circa 1783, as part of an album.
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), London and Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, as part of an album.
William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp, Madresfield Court, Worcestershire; Christie’s, London, 15 June 1965, lot 21 (sold for 800 gns. to Maas).
Anonymous sale; London, Sotheby’s, 3 July 1996, lot 95 (bought in).
with Flavia Ormond, London (Italian Old Master Drawings 1500-1850, 1997, no. 11, ill.).
Private collection, U.S.A.
Literature
W. Schulz, ‘Tiepolo-Probleme. Ein Antonius-Album von Giandomenico Tiepolo’, Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, XL, 1978, p. 72.
J. Byam Shaw ‘Some Unpublished Drawings by Giandomenico Tiepolo’, Master Drawings, XVII, no. 3, Autumn 1979, p. 240, under no. 2.
Exhibited
Stanford University, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Classic Taste. Drawings and Decorative Arts from the Collection of Horace Brock, 2000, unpaginated.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Splendor and Elegance. European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, 2009, no. 96, ill. (essay by Clifford S. Ackley).
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