Details
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)

Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen crushing Heresy with Saint Joseph of Leonessa

numbered 'No. 1106.'; black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
440 x 344mm.
Provenance
L. D. Lempereur (L. 1740)
J. Dupan (L. 1440)

Lot Essay

A primo pensiero for the altarpiece of 1735 for the Capuchin church, Parma now in the Galleria Nazionale, A. Morassi, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G.B. Tiepolo, London, 1962, fig. 120. Two further studies for the picture are in the Albertina, A. Stix and Fröhlich-Bum, Die Zeichnung der Venezianischen Schule, Vienna, 1926, nos. 303-4, both illustrated. A modello is in the Galleria Sabauda, Morassi, op.cit., fig. 117

More from Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection

View All
View All