Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)

Dogs playing in a landscape

Details

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
Dogs playing in a landscape
signed 'Dom Tiepolo f.'
black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey wash, watermark device below a bird
6 3/8 x 7½ in. (161 x 192 mm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 20 April 1993, part of lot 146.

Lot Essay

James Byam Shaw suggested that Domenico's drawings of animals above a trompe l'oeil ledge can be connected to projected frescoes for the interior frieze of the Villa Tiepolo-Duodo at Zianigo, near Padua (J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1962, pp. 42-3). Byam Shaw dates the decoration of the villa to after Domenico's return from Spain, perhaps as late as the 1790s.

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