A Watermill

Details

GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (1727-1804)
A Watermill
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, on paper
5 1⁄8 x 8 3⁄8 in. (13 x 21.4 cm.)

Provenance

Possibly Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1834), Venice.
Possibly Antonio Canova (1757-1822), Venice.
Possibly Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori Canova (1775-1858), Venice.
Edward Cheney (1803-1884), Badger Hall, Shropshire, then by descent to his nephew,
Colonel Alfred Capel-Cure (1826-1896), Blake Hall, Ongar, Essex; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 29 April 1885, as part of lot 1042 (to Parsons).
Alphonse Legros (1837-1911), Watford; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 3-4 July 1918, probably lot 120 (to Richeton, as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo).
Francis Edward Bliss (1847-1930), London (according to an inscription on the verso).
Douglas Huntly Gordon (1902-1986), Annapolis and Baltimore, Maryland, by 1970.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 30 January 1997, lot 85.
Kate de Rothschild, London, in 1999.
Susan Lyall (1935-2018), Swinbrook, Oxfordshire and Little Cassiobury, Bedford Hills, New York, by whom acquired from the above; sale, Christie's, New York, 31 January 2019, lot 51.
Acquired at the above sale.

Literature

G. Knox, Un quaderno di vedute di Giambattista e Domenico Tiepolo, n.d. [1974], p. 81, no. 68, ill.
K. de Rothschild, Kate de Rothschild: Master Drawings. A Celebration, 35 Years in the Art World 1972-2007, n.d. [2008], no. 20, ill.

Exhibited

Cambridge, MA., Fogg Art Museum, Tiepolo: A Bicentenary Exhibition 1770-1970, 1970, no. 83b, ill.
Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Collects: French and Italian Drawings, 1715-1814, 1984 (without catalogue).

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Lot Essay

Landscape sketches are relatively rare among the large corpus of drawings by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. The present sheet is part of a distinctive group of drawings in pen and wash, depicting urban or rural views. These landscape studies – depicting churches, villas, and farm buildings, as well as some townscapes - are of varying sizes, but may have come from an album dispersed at the beginning of the 20th Century (Knox, op. cit., pp. 5-8). Some of the features depicted have been identified with buildings and views near Udine, an area where the Tiepolos worked in the second half of the 1750s.

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