Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo* (1727-1804)

Details
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo* (1727-1804)

A Moor on a rearing Horse with Attendants

signed 'Domo: Tiepolo f' and numbered '68'; black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, fragmentary watermark cartouche
8 1/8 x 11½in. (205 x 292mm.)
Provenance
An unidentified collector's mark, JFA under a cross
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 3 April 1984, lot 36, illustrated (( 16,000)

Lot Essay

One of a series of Oriental horsemen, many of which, unlike the present study, have been trimmed and thus lack the numbering in the upper left. One of the three from this group in the Metropolitan Museum is apparently the following number to this drawing, J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1962, pl. 42. Further drawings are at Besançon and in the Uffizi