Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo* (1727-1804)

Nessus and Deianeira, with a satyr and another figure

Details

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo* (1727-1804)
Nessus and Deianeira, with a satyr and another figure
signed 'Domo Tiepolo'
pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, lower two corners made up
9 x 12 in. (228 x 304 mm.)

Provenance

Linet, Paris, 1963.
Christie's, London, 8 July 1980, lot 50, illustrated (4,500).
Duke Roberto Ferretti di Castelferretto.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 13 January 1993, lot 63, illustrated ($14,300).

Literature

J. Cailleux, 'Centaurs, Fauns, Female Fauns and Satyrs among the Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo', The Burlington Magazine, 1974, CXVI, p. XV, no. 36, illustrated fig. 31.

Exhibited

Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto and elsewhere, Italian Drawings from the Collection of Duke Robert Ferretti, 1985-6, no. 63.

Lot Essay

James Byam Shaw characterized the series of Satyr drawings as 'perhaps the most charming and original of all of Domenico's drawings', J. Byam Shaw and G. Knox, The Robert Lehman Collection, Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings, New York, 1987, p. 171. The drawings, probably produced as independent works of art between 1771 and 1791, were discussed by Jean Cailleux, op. cit., pp. I-XXVIII.