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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
Lot 53 Property from the Estate of Sylvia Paine Constable

GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)

Angels and putti in clouds

Closed1 February 2024

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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
Angels and putti in clouds
signed ‘Dom.o Tiepolo f.’ (lower right)
pen and gray ink, gray-brown wash
7 5⁄8 x 11 in. (19.3 x 28 cm)

possibly Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), Venice (as part of an album).
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford (1717-1797), London and Strawberry Hill, Twickenham (as part of an album).
William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp (1903-1979), Madresfield Court, Worcestershire; Christie’s, London, 15 June 1965, lot 68.
John D. Constable (1927-2016), Cambridge MA; then by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

Domenico Tiepolo was a prolific draftsman and among his most charming drawings are the many studies of angels and cher­ubs in flight. Many of these drawings are known and none of them appears to tell a specific story or to relate to a painted decoration. A large group of drawings of this subject was, together with the present one, in an album from Earl Beauchamp’s collection dispersed at auction in 1965 (Christie’s, London, 15 June 1965).