Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo* (1727-1804)
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo* (1727-1804)

A View of Brescia

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo* (1727-1804)
A View of Brescia
pen and brown ink, brown wash, fragmentary watermark proprietary
4.3/8 x 11 in. (110 x 288 mm.)

Lot Essay

A study for the landscape on the upper left side of the fresco of Faustina and Giovita defending Brescia in the church of Saints Faustina and Giovita in Brescia, A. Mariuz, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Venice, 1971, no. 75, illustrated.
The fresco is part of the decoration painted by Giandomenico in 1744-5, according to Mariuz. It replaced a cycle painted by Lattanzio Gambara which was destroyed by fire on 2 December 1742.