Lot Essay
Professor Knox dates this drawing to circa 1743-4 and relates it to a painting of the same subject in the Louvre.
Apollo and Daphne (recto); and A small Sketch of a Landscape (verso)
Details
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo* (1696-1770)
Apollo and Daphne (recto); and A small Sketch of a Landscape (verso)
black and white chalk on gray-blue paper
8¾ x 15¼ in. (222 x 390 mm.)
Apollo and Daphne (recto); and A small Sketch of a Landscape (verso)
black and white chalk on gray-blue paper
8¾ x 15¼ in. (222 x 390 mm.)
Provenance
Giovanni Domenico Bossi, and by descent to Maria Theresa Karoline Bossi, associated price code 'f.1. C. M. No 3074' (verso).
Karl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen; H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 27-8 March 1882.
Caspari, Munich.
Gustave Nebehay, 1927.
Karl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen; H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 27-8 March 1882.
Caspari, Munich.
Gustave Nebehay, 1927.
Exhibited
G. Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, A Study and Catalogue Raisonnée of the Chalk Drawings, Oxford, 1980, M. 651.