A centaur carrying off a nymph, accompanied by putti

Details

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
A centaur carrying off a nymph, accompanied by putti
signed 'Dom Tiepolo f'
pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark bird above proprietary
10 5/8 x 11¾ in. (269 x 297 mm.)

Provenance

P. Geismar (L. 2078b); Paris, 15 November 1928, lot 123 (6,600 francs).

Literature

F. Lugt, Les Marques de Collections... Supplément, The Hague, 1956, p. 306.
J. Cailleux, 'Centaurs, fauns, female fauns and satyrs among the drawings of Domenico Tiepolo', The Burlington Magazine, 1974, CXVI, p. xiii, no. 21, fig. 19.

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Lot Essay

One of a small group of drawings that Jean Cailleux differentiates from Domenico's large series of Nymphs and Centaurs due to their square proportions and free handling. Other drawings are in the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, the University Art Museum, Princeton, two formerly with Cailleux, Paris, formerly with C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, the Musée Fabre, Montpelier, in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and another now lost (J. Cailleux, op. cit., nos. 12, 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, and 30). Jean Cailleux dates the group to after Domenico's return from Würzburg in 1755.

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