Lot Essay
Of the same type as the two drawings of the Holy Family sold from the Cabinet Italien at Christie's New York, 28 January 1999, lots 12 and 13.
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The Holy Family resting with two angels kneeling and offering food
Details
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)
The Holy Family resting with two angels kneeling and offering food
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey-brown wash
284 x 198 mm.
The Holy Family resting with two angels kneeling and offering food
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey-brown wash
284 x 198 mm.
Provenance
Given by the artist to the Library of Somasco Convent, Santa Maria della Salute, Venice.
Count Leopoldo Cicognara.
Antonio Canova.
Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori-Canova.
Francesco Pesaro.
Edward Cheney, Badger Hall, Shropshire, by 1842, and to his nephew,
Alfred Capel-Cure, Blake Hall, Essex; Sotheby's, 29 April 1885, part of lot 1024 (to Parsons).
Duc de Talleyrand.
Count Leopoldo Cicognara.
Antonio Canova.
Monsignor Giovanni Battista Sartori-Canova.
Francesco Pesaro.
Edward Cheney, Badger Hall, Shropshire, by 1842, and to his nephew,
Alfred Capel-Cure, Blake Hall, Essex; Sotheby's, 29 April 1885, part of lot 1024 (to Parsons).
Duc de Talleyrand.
Literature
A. Morassi, Dessins Vénitiens du Dix-huitième siècle de la Collection du Duc de Talleyrand, Milan, 1958, no. 13.
Exhibited
Venice, Settecento Italiano, 1929, part of no. 16.
Milan, Il Settecento Italiano, 1932, part of figs. 284-5.
Venice, Cini Foundation, Disegni veneti di collezioni inglesi, 1980, no. 89.
Milan, Il Settecento Italiano, 1932, part of figs. 284-5.
Venice, Cini Foundation, Disegni veneti di collezioni inglesi, 1980, no. 89.
Special notice
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