Live Auction 2511Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors Part II
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
Lot 260

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)

Venus on a pedestal, a putto at her feet supporting drapery

Closed26 January 2011

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
Venus on a pedestal, a putto at her feet supporting drapery
signed 'Domo Tiepolo f.' and numbered '3'
black chalk, pen and black ink, grey wash
10 5/8 x 6 in. (27 x 15.2 cm.)

B. Jolles (L. 381).
E. Sack (L. 903a).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Paris, 18 March 2004, lot 69, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

Similar in execution to a group of early drawings after garden statues, probably those at the Villa Cordellina at Monteghio Maggiore, which were also drawn by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. For examples of drawings from this series, see J. Bean and B. Griswold, Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, nos. 246-7.