Lot 146
146
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)

Details
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)

The Adoration of the Magi

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
10½ x 7¾in. (267 x 197mm.)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Paris, Drouot, 14 November 1919, lot 39.
James Gilvarry; Christie's, London, 12 December 1984, lot 59, illustrated (£34,000).

Lot Essay

Professor Knox dates this drawing to about 1742 and comments that it is presumably a study for Tiepolo's famous large etching of the subject (De V. 1; R. 27), of which an impression was offfered at Christie's, London, 28 November 1995, lot 298, illustrated.