Heads of two cherubs

Details

GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (VENICE 1696-1770 MADRID)
Tiepolo, G.B.
Heads of two cherubs
red chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper
6 5/8 x 5 3/8 in. (16.8 x 13.5 cm)

Provenance

Giovanni Domenico Bossi (1767-1853), Munich (associated numbering ‘54.X. 2.5’ and ‘No. [...]’ on verso); by descent to his daughter
Maria Theresa Karoline Bossi (1825-1881); by inheritance to her husband
Karl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (1826-1881); H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 27 March 1882.
Eduard Sack (1857-1913), Hamburg (L. 903a).
S. Schwarz, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 16 January 1986, lot 151, pl. 32

Literature

E. Sack, Giambattista und Domenico Tiepolo. Ihr Leben und ihre Werke. Ein Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, Hamburg, 1910, p. 260, ill.
G. Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo. A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings, Oxford, 1980, I, no. M.257.

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Lot Essay

A study for the cherubs in the painting of Saint Anthony of Padua with the Infant Christ now in the Museum Nacional del Prado in Madrid (inv. P003007; see see M. Gemin and F. Pedrocco, Giambattista Tiepolo. I dipinti. Opera completa, Venice, 1993, no. 522, ill.). The altarpiece was part of a commission of seven paintings for San Pascual Baylon at Aranjuez in Spain, a new church constructed at the behest of King Charles III for the Alcantarine friars. Tiepolo received this important commission towards the end of his career, in 1767, soon after having completed the decoration of the ceilings of the Palacio Real in Madrid.

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