Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)

The Madonna and Child surrounded by angels appearing to a kneeling pilgrim and a seated saint reading a book

Details
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)
Tiepolo, G.B.
The Madonna and Child surrounded by angels appearing to a kneeling pilgrim and a seated saint reading a book
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark three crescents
12 x 8.7/8 in. (310 x 226 mm.)
Provenance
Given by the artist to the Library of Somasco Convent, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice.
Count Leopoldo Cicognara.
Antonio Canova.
Edward Cheney, Badger Hall, Shropshire, by 1842, to his nephew,
Alfred Capel-Cure, Blake Hall, Essex; Sotheby's, 29 April 1885, part of lot 1024 (to Parsons).
with Andoga.
Andrea Federico Gentili di Giuseppe; Paris, 5 April 1938, lot 12, illustrated.
Literature
A.M. Brizio, 'Unpublished Drawings by G.B. Tiepolo', Old Master Drawings, VIII, September 1933, pp. 16-20, no. 10. pl. 24.