Michelangelo Morlaiter (Venice 1729-1806)

Diana and Endymion

Details

Michelangelo Morlaiter (Venice 1729-1806)
Diana and Endymion
signed 'M.A. Morlaiter.', and with number '29' (in the border)
black chalk, pen and black ink, grey wash
8 3/8 x 6 in. (21.2 x 15.3 cm.); and A satyress with her family by Giovanni Scajaro (1726-1792), signed and with number '25' (2)

Provenance

Theophil Friedrich Jakob Künhans, Venice.

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Lot Essay

The son of the sculptor Giovanni Maria Morlaiter, Michelangelo Morlaiter studied with Jacopo Amigoni (1682-1752) and worked in the manner of Tiepolo, Piazzetta and Sebastiano Ricci. He was a founding member of Venice's Accademia di Belle Arti, along with Francesco Maggiotto (see lot 74) and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (see lot 70), and it was presumably through these Academic circles that he became acquainted with Künhans and John Strange. For a summary of his works, see G.F. Fruet, 'Review: Una tesi di laurea su Michelangelo Morlaiter', in Arte in Friuli, arte a Trieste, 1975, pp. 141-150.

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