Lot Essay
A study for the ceiling of Fame announcing to the Spectators the Arrival of the Emperor Henry III of circa 1750, formerly in the Villa Contarini, now in the Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris
Details
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)
Study of a Youth, turned to the left
with inscription 'Gio. Batta. Tiepolo' (recto); black and white chalk, on blue paper
297 x 247mm.
Study of a Youth, turned to the left
with inscription 'Gio. Batta. Tiepolo' (recto); black and white chalk, on blue paper
297 x 247mm.
Provenance
Giovanni Domenico Bossi, and by descent to Maria Theresa Karoline Bossi, associated price code '36.Xrs No. 3662 and '996' in pencil (verso)
Karl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen; H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 27-8 March 1882
Dr. Hans Wendland, Lugano
De Cérenville
Karl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen; H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 27-8 March 1882
Dr. Hans Wendland, Lugano
De Cérenville
Literature
G. Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo, A Study and Catalogue Raisonné of the Chalk Drawings, Oxford, 1980, I, no. M.79, II, pl. 58