Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804)

A ram walking to the left

Details

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804)
A ram walking to the left
signed 'Domo Tiepolo f'
black chalk, pen and black ink, grey wash, countermark P
142 x 181 mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 11 December 1974, lot 25.

Lot Essay

Drawings by Domenico of this type have been connected with the decoration of the artist's own villa at Zianigo near Padua. James Byam Shaw dated this project to after the artist's return from Spain in 1770. Tiepolo drew inspiration from the German animal painter Ridinger.

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