Live Auction 18953Italian Drawings From The Robert Landolt Collection
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
Lot 100

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)

Studies of Christ preaching, two monks in adoration, a young woman with a mandolin, a man carrying a load on his shoulders and a reclining figure (recto); Studies of Christ and other figures (verso)

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
Studies of Christ preaching, two monks in adoration, a young woman with a mandolin, a man carrying a load on his shoulders and a reclining figure (recto); Studies of Christ and other figures (verso)
signed ‘Domo. Tiepolo’
pen and brown ink, grey wash (recto), pen and brown ink (verso), illegible watermark
10 5/8 x 6 7/8 in. (26.8 x 17.3 cm)

Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), Venice.
Horace Walpole (1717-1797), London and Strawberry Hill, Twickenham.
Earl Beauchamp; Christie’s, London, 15 June 1965, lot 165 (220 gns. to Hans Calmann).
with Hans Calmann, London, 1965, from whom acquired by Robert Landolt.

Specialist note


Until 1965 this drawing was part of an album of 166 drawings belonging to Earl Beauchamp. Before him, the album belonged to Domenico Tiepolo’s uncle, the painter Francesco Guardi, and the collector Horace Walpole. Several subjects occupy the two sides of this sheet: on the recto, a saint, possibly Saint Francis, and a woman playing a mandolin can be recognized as well as the figure of Christ which also appears on the verso. Interestingly, the composition on the verso copies a drawing by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-1664) now in the Royal Collection, Windsor Castle in reverse (inv. RCIN 903834; see A. Blunt, The Drawings of G.B. Castiglione & Stefano della Bella in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1954, no. 209, pl. 47).