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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)

Hercules and Antaeus

Closed24 January 2017

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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
Hercules and Antaeus
signed 'Dom Tiepolo f' (recto), with inscription 'mandati di razze' (verso)
black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, brown and grey wash
8 5/8 x 6 ¼ in. (21.9 x 15.9 cm.)

Sir Keith Murdoch.
Mr. and Mrs. Milan Kantor; Christie's, London, 23 November 1971, lot 80.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 18 January 1985, lot 150.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 2006, lot 95, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

This drawing probably originates from a small album containing 38 depictions of this subject by Giovanni Domenico. Formerly in the Bordes collection, it was dismembered between 1936 and 1941. James Byam Shaw related the choice of the theme to the decoration of the Tiepolo villa at Zianigo and suggested that the series was drawn late in the artist's career (J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1962, p. 38).