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Drawn to Life – Works on Paper from a Distinguished Private Collection

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

God the Father in Glory

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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Drawn to Life – Works on Paper from a Distinguished Private Collection


Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

(Venice 1727 - 1804)

God the Father in Glory


Pen and brown ink and brown wash;

signed in brown ink, lower right: Domo. Tiepolo

extensively inscribed in German, verso: Am 7.II.1931 bei Hollstein und Puppel, Berlin, (No. 690 ??? / auf Rat von Dr. Rosenberg vom Berliner Kupferstichkabinett / 8.11.31 / Dr.(?)

287 by 200 mm

Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA., by 1919,

Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA., in 1919 (on loan from Sachs);

A. Köster, Leipzig,

his posthumous sale, Leipzig, C. G. Boerner, 13 November 1924, lot 471;

Dr. Jakob Rosenberg (1893-1980), Berlin,

sale, Berlin, Hollstein & Puppel, 6-7 November 1931, lot 690 (‘Gottvater auf Wolken, zu seinen Füssen Drei Cherubim-Köpfe’);

Private collection, Germany;

with Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London,

where acquired by the present owner

See note to lot 182.