Live Auction 1555European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries Part I
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)
Lot 263

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)

The Madonna and Child adored by Saints Jerome and Catherine of Alexandria

Closed30 September 2014

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GBP 28,750

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)
The Madonna and Child adored by Saints Jerome and Catherine of Alexandria
black chalk, pen and brown ink, red chalk and wash, heightened with white
16 ¾ x 12 in. (42.4 x 30.5 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 13 January 1988, lot 139.

Specialist note

In the 1998 sale catalogue, it was noted that James Byam Shaw had suggested a date of circa 1738, making this one of the artist's early works on this theme.