THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804)

Details
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804)

Nessus and Dejaneira

signed 'Dom. Tiepolo f.' and numbered '65'; pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash
7½ x 10 5/8in. (190 x 270mm.)
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Cartier.
Claude Cartier; Sotheby's, Monaco, 26 November 1979, lot 506, illustrated (FF 42,000).

Lot Essay

One from a series of drawings of similar composition studied by Jean Cailleux in Centaurs, Fauns, Female Fauns and Satyrs among the Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, Supplement to The Burlington Magazine, 1974, CXVI, nos. 11-8, illustrated.
Drawings from the same series were sold at Christie's, London, 4 July 1995, lot 72, and 8 July 1980, lots 47-51, illustrated.