Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804)

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804)

The Magdalen washing Christ's Feet

brush and brown ink
222 x 350mm.
Provenance
An unidentified collector's mark
Mrs. F.M. Humphreys; Sotheby's, 8 December 1972, lot 66, illustrated ((600)
Literature
G. Knox, Primi Pensieri by Domenico Tiepolo and a New Painting, Master Drawings, XVII, 1979, p. 30, pl. 17
Exhibited
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario and New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, Italian Drawings from the Collection of Duke Roberto Ferretti, 1985, no. 62

Lot Essay

A study for the painting dated 1752, one of four executed for the dining room in Veitshöchheim, a country residence of the Prince Bishop outside Würzburg. In the painting, now in the Mainfränkisches Museum at Würzburg, the design is cut down on the right and to a lesser extent along the top

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