Saint Jerome

Details

GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)
Saint Jerome
oil on canvas, oval
22 x 16½ in. (55.9 x 42 cm.)

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, 18 April 1997, lot 192.

Literature

E. Martini, La pittura del Settecento Veneto, Udine, 1982, p. 510, note 192, fig. 593 (the subject identified as Saint James the Greater).
M. Gemin and F. Pedrocco, Giambattista Tiepolo. I dipinti. Opera completa, Venice, 1993, p. 233, no. 44 (the subject identified as Saint James the Greater).

Lot Essay

This early work reveals the profound influence that the richly impasted, freely executed and deeply shadowed paintings of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta had on the development of the young Tiepolo. Martini (loc. cit.), who first published this deeply felt picture, dated it to the years 1722 to 1725; Gemin and Pedrocco, in their recent catalogue raisonné (loc. cit.) placed it at the very start of this period -- 1722 -- the moment immediately following the completion of Tiepolo's first masterpiece, the Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew for the Church of San Stae, Venice (in situ).

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