Neptune, Amphitrite and Time with a Nereid

Details

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
Neptune, Amphitrite and Time with a Nereid
signed 'Domo Tiepolo f'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
7½ x 10 7/8 in. (190 x 275 mm.)

Provenance

Miss E. Wensley; Christie's, London, 14 December 1964, lot 13 (bt. Colnaghi.)
With P.& D. Colnaghi, London.

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Lot Essay

This drawing is close in type to a pair of sheets of the same size and technique in the Lehmann collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting satyrs (J. Byam Shaw, The Robert Lehman Collection, Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings, New York, 1987, nos. 140-1). The present drawing, very pictorial, was certainly done as finished work on art.
James Byam Shaw further commented on the unusual subject of the present drawing when it was at Colnaghi in in 1965 'An excellent example of Domenico Tiepolo, in the style of the series of drawings of satyrs and centaurs, but not belonging to any of the familiar categories'.

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