Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)

The Vision of Saint Jerome

28¼ x 22in. (71.8 x 56cm.)

Provenance

with Cailleux, Paris (Giambattista, Domenico et Lorenzo Tiepolo, 1974, no.2, illustrated)
with Spencer Samuels, New York (Inaugural Exhibition. Master Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Nov.-Dec. 1984, no.7, illustrated, a detail illustrated on the cover)

Literature

A. Morassi, Alcune tele giovanili di Giambattista Tiepolo, Arte Veneta, XXIX, 1975, pp.232ff. and pl.2

Lot Essay

Publishing the present picture in 1975, Professor Morassi dates it c.1720-2, conjecturing that it was painted for Tiepolo's 'own delight and devotion' and describing it as 'an impassioned vision of great beauty'

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