Study for a ceiling decoration

Details

GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
Study for a ceiling decoration
signed 'Dom.o Tiepolo' (lower right)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, gray wash, watermark initials 'AR'
15 5⁄8 x 10 ½ in. (39.8 x 26.6 cm)

Provenance

Paul Chevalier; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 20 March 1956, lot 43.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

Among the studies on this sheet is Hercules borne to Olympus in a chariot in the upper portion of the drawing. The figure recalls the central motif in a now lost painting by Giovanni Domenico known through a print. The painting of the Triumph of Hercules was one of a series of four commissioned to Domenico by the court in Saint Petersburg.

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