Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)

Four studies of men seen di sotto in su

Details
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
Four studies of men seen di sotto in su
brush and brown wash, the lower right corner made up
9 x 12¼ in. (231 x 309 mm.)
Provenance
Sir Gilbert Lewis (died 1883), to his nephew
Sir Henry Duff-Gordon, Bt.; Sotheby's, London, 19 February 1936, lot 88 (as G.B. Tiepolo, £12 to Banks).
R.L. Banks; Sotheby's, 3 November 1937, lot 22.
Literature
A.P. Oppé, 'A fresh group of Tiepolo drawings', Old Master Drawings, XVIII (September 1930), (reprinted New York, 1970, V), p. 31, as G.B. Tiepolo.
J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1962, under no. 44.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, The Paul Oppé Collection, 1958, no. 365.
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Works from the Paul Oppé Collection, 1961, no. 145.
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Lot Essay

This drawing is from a group of Tiepolo studies belonging to Sir Henry Duff Gordon first published by Paul Oppé in 1930, although incorrectly attributed to Domenico's father Giovanni Battista. As James Byam Shaw notes, at this period Domenico's draughtsmanship drew heavily on his father's style but they can be indentified as his by association with a signed drawing formerly in the collection of Oppé's friend Sir Bruce Ingram (J. Byam Shaw, loc. cit.). The drawings came from an album put together in England in the late 18th Century, and so are probably among the first drawings by the Tiepolo family to have been brought to England.

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