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

A left hand

Details
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)
A left hand
numbered '4.'
red and white chalk on blue paper
170 x 163 mm.
Provenance
J.A. Boussac (L. 729b); Paris, 10-11 May 1926, lot 227.
Sacha Guitry.

Lot Essay

Given to Giovanni Battista Tiepolo by Knox, the present drawing may have served as the prototype for his son Domenico when the latter executed a study, now in the Museo Correr, for the left hand of one of the four Camoldolese Saints in the altarpiece now in the Museo del Castelvecchio, Verona, G. Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: a Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings, Oxford, 1990, p. 216, pls. 225 and 228. The Correr sheet has an additional hand study of the same Saint's right hand grasping a staff, confirming the attribution to Domenico.

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