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GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (VENICE 1696-1770 MADRID)
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GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (VENICE 1696-1770 MADRID)

Nobility, Liberality and another allegorical figure seated on clouds

Closed4 July 2023

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GBP 40,000–60,000

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GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (VENICE 1696-1770 MADRID)
Nobility, Liberality and another allegorical figure seated on clouds
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark ‘AS’
22.5 x 32.6 cm (8 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.)

Marie-Joseph-Adrien Fauchier-Magnan (1873-1965), Cannes.
Richard Brinsley, later Sir Brinsley Ford (1908-1999), London.

Specialist note

This sheet unites three allegorical figures: Nobility holding a crown in her right hand, Liberality dispensing coins, and a third figure at right. The female figures are portrayed di sotto in sù (from below), as often is the case in Tiepolo’s sketches made for fresco decorations. The same composition, with some variants, appears in another sheet by the artist now at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York (inv. IV,112; see Collection J. Pierpont Morgan. Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray, IV, London, 1912, no. 112).