The Baptism of Christ

Details

GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
The Baptism of Christ
signed 'Dom^o. Tiepolo' (lower left) and with number '60' (upper left)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper
11 ¼ x 7 5/8 in. (28.4 x 19.2 cm.)

Provenance

possibly Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), Venice (as part of an album).
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), London and Strawberry Hill, Twickenham (as part of an album).
William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp (1903-1979), Madresfield Court, Worcestershire; Christie’s, London, 15 June 1965, lot 11.
with Colnaghi's, London.
Professor Eric Stanley (1923-2018), Oxford, and by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

As was typical of his working method, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo drew many different variants of this composition. A group of thirteen similar drawings of The Baptism of Christ, including the present sheet, was in an album from Earl Beauchamp’s collection dispersed at auction in 1965 (Christie’s, London, 15 June 1965, lots 6-18). A further large group of drawings on this theme is in Stuttgart (see Tiepolo. Drawings by Gambattista, Domenico and Lorenzo Tiepolo from the Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, from Private Collections in Wuerttemberg and from the Martin von Wagner Museum of the University of Wuerzburg, Stuttgart, 1971, no. 44).

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