Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804)

View of Udine

Details

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804)
View of Udine
pen and brown ink, brown wash
89 x 246 mm.

Provenance

G. Bellingham-Smith
Duc de Talleyrand, Saint-Brice-sous-Fôret.

Literature

D. von Hadeln, Handzeichnungen von G.B. Tiepolo, Munich, 1927, no. 114.
A. Morassi, Dessins vénitiens du dix-huitième siècle de la collection du duc de Talleyrand, Milan, 1958, no. 36, illustrated, as Giambattista.
A. Rizzi, Disegni del Tiepolo, Udine, 1965, no. 102, as Giambattista.
G. Knox, Un quaderno di vedute di Giambattista e Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1973, no. 54, as Domenico.

Exhibited

Udine, Loggia del Lionello, Disegni del Tiepolo, 1965, no. 102.
Venice, Fondazione Cini, Disegni veneti di collezioni inglesi, 1980, no. 100, illustrated.

Lot Essay

Part of a series of landscape drawings executed by Domenico and his father Giambattista in the region of Udine. Father and son visited that region twice, once in the summer of 1757 when they painted frescoes in the Villa Valmarana, and again in August and September 1759 for the decoration of the church of Santa Maria della Purità in Udine: Giambattista painted an altarpiece and the ceiling of the church while his son executed eight chiaroscuri for the walls. The present drawing was probably sketched from the campanile of the church of Santa Madonna delle Grazie and depicts the castle with the small church of Santa Maria with its campanile. George Knox dates the drawing to the artist's second trip to Udine in 1759, G. Knox, op. cit., p. 70, with a photograph of that view in Udine today.
Other landscape drawings by Domenico were sold at Christie's, New York, 30 January 1997, lots 84-5, illustrated.

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