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.