Drawn to Life – Works on Paper from a Distinguished Private Collection
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Recto: God the Father and angels on clouds | Verso: Partial study of a head
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Drawn to Life – Works on Paper from a Distinguished Private Collection
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
(Venice 1727 - 1804)
Recto: God the Father and angels on clouds
Verso: Partial study of a head
Pen and grey and black ink and grey wash over black chalk (recto); black chalk and stumping (verso)
signed in grey ink, lower right: Domo Tiepolo f. and numbered in brown ink, upper left: 82
231 by 163 mm
With Agnew's, London, early 1960s;
sale, London, Christie's, 7 July 2015, lot 27,
where acquired by the present owner
This is part of Giandomenico's series of over one hundred variations on the theme of God the Father supported by Angels and Cherubs. When James Byam Shaw wrote about the group in 1962, the highest number he knew of was 102, but since then other higher numbered drawings have appeared, including number 140, previously in the collection of Janos Scholz and today housed in the Morgan Library, New York.1 Byam Shaw rightly felt that the relationship between some of these compositions and the upper section of Giambattista's important altarpiece Saint Thecla praying for the plague-stricken, in the Duomo at Este, would suggest a dating for the series after 1759.2
1.The Morgan Library, New York, inv. no. 1983.62
2.J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London 1962, p. 32
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