Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)

细节

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)

The Head of Medusa, and the head of a satyr

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
172 x 138mm.

来源

Baron de Malaussena (L. 1887), and his associated number '310' (?).

拍品专文

Similar head studies inspired Count Algarotti when he tried his hand at etching under Tiepolo's guidance. The same combination of the head of a satyr and the head of a Medusa appears in a drawing in the Kupferstickabinett, Berlin, M. Levey, Giambattista Tiepolo, London, 1986, p. 132, pl. 121.