Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)

A turbanned man holding an eagle, with subsidiary studies of his head and leg

Details
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
A turbanned man holding an eagle, with subsidiary studies of his head and leg
brush and brown wash
11 5/8 x 8 1/8 in. (29.4 x 20.8 cm.)
Provenance
with J. Böhler, Munich.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 30 January 1998, lot 139.

Lot Essay

A drawing of similar subject and technique is in the Robert Lehman collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (J. Byam Shaw and G. Knox, The Robert Lehman collection: Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings, New York, 1987, I, no. 161). Domenico's father also made wash drawings of exotic men wearing turbans, for example see Head of a moustachioed man in a turban (sold, Sotheby's, New York, 23 January 2008, lot 82).

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