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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)
Lot 30PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED CANADIAN COLLECTION (LOTS 17, 22-23, 26, 30-32, 38)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)

A young man standing in profile, wearing a tall hat

Fermé5 July 2011

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)
A young man standing in profile, wearing a tall hat
red and white chalk, on brown paper, unframed
14¼ x 5 7/8 in. (36.1 x 15 cm.)

Armand-Louis-François de Mestral de Saint-Saphorin.
Dr and Mrs Malcolm W. Bick, Longmeadow, Mass.

Note du spécialiste

Knox was the first to notice that this drawing is a study for Tiepolo's fresco The Glory of Spain. Executed on the ceiling of the throne room in the Palazzo Reale in 1764, this was the first major commission he completed after his arrival in Madrid in June 1762. The man with his unusually tall hat appears to the right-hand side of one of the stucco decorations in the corner of the fresco, above the original location of the throne (Fig. 1).