Lot 36
36
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENISE 1727-1804)
Provenant d'une importante collection européenne
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENISE 1727-1804)

Une famille de satyres dans un paysage, avec leurs arcs et flèches à leurs pieds

Details
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENISE 1727-1804)
Une famille de satyres dans un paysage, avec leurs arcs et flèches à leurs pieds
signed 'Dom°. Tiepolo f.' (en bas à droite)
plume et encre brune, lavis brun, filigrane croix
19 x 27,8 cm (7½ x 10 7⁄8 in.)
Provenance
Collection Bevilacqua-La Masa, Venise, 15 octobre 1900, partie du lot 376.
Literature
J. Cailleux, ‘Centaurs, Fauns, Female Fauns, and Satyrs among the Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo’, The Burlington Magazine, CXVI (June 1974), no. 90, ill.
Further details
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO, SATYR FAMILY IN A LANDSCAPE, ARROWS AT THEIR FEET, PEN AND BROWN INK, BROWN WASH, WATERMARK CROSS, SIGNED

The present sheet belongs to a series of drawings representing satyrs and centaurs, works described by James Byam Shaw as 'the most delightful and original of all Domenico's allegorical and mythological subjects' (J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1962, p. 41). The artist executed over one hundred drawings on the theme of fauns, satyrs and centaurs represented alone or in groups. The present sheet depicts a female faun holding a young satyr in her arms, with two other satyrs nearby. Similar drawings with representations of families of satyrs are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (J. Byam Shaw, The Robert Lehman Collection: Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings, New York, 1987, nos. 140-141). The drawings were apparently executed as independent works of art, although Giovanni Domenico returned on these themes also in his paintings.

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Lot Essay

La présente feuille s’inscrit dans une vaste série de dessins consacrés aux satyres et aux centaures, décrite par James Byam Shaw comme ‘les plus délicieuses et les plus originales de tous les sujets allégoriques et mythologiques de Domenico’ (The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, Londres, 1962, p. 41). Domenico Tiepolo réalisa plus d’une centaine de ces compositions, mettant en scène faunes, satyres et centaures, isolés ou en groupes. Des dessins comparables, illustrant des familles de satyres, sont conservés au Metropolitan Museum of Art (J. Byam Shaw, The Robert Lehman Collection: Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings, New York, 1987, nos 140‑141).

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