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Lot Essay
According to Professor George Knox a study for a lost small devotional engraving. The figure derives from Domenico's altarpiece of the Four Olivetan Saints now in the Museo Civico in Verona, A. Mariuz, G.D. Tiepolo, Milan, 1971, p. 147, pl. 267. The picture was painted for the church of San Michele in Isola by the end of 1757. Professor Knox dates the drawing to 1758-62.
Two comparable chalk portraits by Lorenzo Tiepolo are illustrated in G. Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, A Study and Catalogue Raisonn of the Chalk Drawings, Oxford, 1980, M. 204 and M. 467, figs. 191-2. The second drawing is related to a print of Carlo Goldoni engraved by Marco Pitteri in 1761.
Saint Pietro Orseolo was elected Doge of Venice in 976 and was canonized in 1731.
We are grateful to Professor Knox for providing us with information about this drawing.
Two comparable chalk portraits by Lorenzo Tiepolo are illustrated in G. Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, A Study and Catalogue Raisonn of the Chalk Drawings, Oxford, 1980, M. 204 and M. 467, figs. 191-2. The second drawing is related to a print of Carlo Goldoni engraved by Marco Pitteri in 1761.
Saint Pietro Orseolo was elected Doge of Venice in 976 and was canonized in 1731.
We are grateful to Professor Knox for providing us with information about this drawing.