A Young Woman with a Mandolin and with Flowers and Pearls in her Hair

Details

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804)
A Young Woman with a Mandolin and with Flowers and Pearls in her Hair
oil on canvas
23¾ x 20in. (60.3 x 50.8cm.)

Provenance

Anon. Sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 9 Dec. 1952, lot 22, as Giambattista Tiepolo.
Anon. Sale, Christie's, 19 March 1965, lot 93 (8,000gns. to Hompe).
Espirito Santo Silva Collection, Lisbon; Parke-Bernet, New York, 6 Dec. 1973, lot 139 ($30,000).
with Agnew's, London (Master Paintings: Recent Acquisitions, 29 May-4 July 1975, no. 30, pl. XVI), from whom purchased.

Literature

A. Morassi, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G.B. Tiepolo, London, 1962, p. 16.
A. Mariuz, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Venice, 1971, pp. 120-1, pl. 231. G. Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings, Oxford, 1980, I, p. 301, no. P.85, p. 295, under no. P.36, and p. 297, under no. P.48.
E. Martini, La pittura veneziana del Settecento, Udine, 1982, pp. 113 and 557, note 385, and p. 111, colour pl. XXVII.

Lot Essay

Mariuz, loc. cit., describing the present picture as 'uno dei più smaglianti ritratti di fantasia di Giandomenico', dates it to the artist's years in Spain, 1762-1770, and points out that it was loosely inspired by Giambattista's painting of the same subject in the Detroit Institute of Arts, generally dated to the second half of the 1750s. He also introduces the possibility that it may originally have formed part of a series of portraits of young women with musical instruments, such as that, of similar size, in the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Cadiz (ibid., p. 116).

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