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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
Lot 54 Property from the Estate of Sylvia Paine Constable

GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)

An angel with a victor’s crown and putti in the clouds

Closed1 February 2024

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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
An angel with a victor’s crown and putti in the clouds
signed ‘Dom.o Tiepolo/ f.’ (lower right)
pen and brown ink, gray-brown wash, watermark ‘LCB’
7 ¾ x 10 7⁄8 in. (17.7 x 19.9 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 85.
John D. Constable (1927-2016), Cambridge MA; then by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

Domenico Tiepolo drew many compositions of flying angels. None of them appears to represent a specific narrative or to be connected to a painted decoration. The angel holding the wreath on this sheet presents strong affinities with the representation of Virtue in a drawing in private collection in Wuerttemberg (see Tiepolo. Drawings by Gambattista, Domenico and Lorenzo Tiepolo from the Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, from Private Collections in Wuerttemberg and from the Marin von Wagner Museum of the University of Wuerzburg, Stuttgart, 1971, no. 176, ill.).