Lot Essay
Of the same type and provenance as a drawing of the Holy Family sold at Christie's London, 10 July 2001, lot 75.
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The Holy Family with angels before an arch
Details
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)
The Holy Family with angels before an arch
pen and brown ink, grey wash
12 5/8 x 9 in. (315 x 226 mm.)
The Holy Family with angels before an arch
pen and brown ink, grey wash
12 5/8 x 9 in. (315 x 226 mm.)
Provenance
Given by the artist to the Library of the Somasco Covent, 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 by descent 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 by descent 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 siécle de la collection du Duc de Talleyrand, Milan, 1958, no. 8.
Exhibited
Venice, Settecento Italiano, 1929, part of no. 16.
Milan, Il Settecento Italiano, 1932, part of figs. 284-5.
Venice, Fondazione Cini, Disegni Veneti di Collezioni Inglesi, 1980, no. 88.
Norwich, Castle Museum, Old Master Drawings from Venice, 1984, no. 12.
Milan, Il Settecento Italiano, 1932, part of figs. 284-5.
Venice, Fondazione Cini, Disegni Veneti di Collezioni Inglesi, 1980, no. 88.
Norwich, Castle Museum, Old Master Drawings from Venice, 1984, no. 12.