Lot Essay
Byam Shaw was the first to publish this drawing which he considered to be an example of Tiepolo's influence on Fontebasso's use of pen and wash with minimal hatching.
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Design for a fountain of Neptune in his chariot drawn by four hippocamps, flanked by nymphs and putti
Details
Francesco Salvator Fontebasso (Venice 1707-1769)
Design for a fountain of Neptune in his chariot drawn by four hippocamps, flanked by nymphs and putti
black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark bow and arrow
10¾ x 10½ in. (27.2 x 26.6 cm.)
Design for a fountain of Neptune in his chariot drawn by four hippocamps, flanked by nymphs and putti
black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark bow and arrow
10¾ x 10½ in. (27.2 x 26.6 cm.)
Provenance
with Colnaghi, London.
with Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York.
with Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York.
Literature
J. Byam Shaw, 'The drawings of Francesco Fontebasso', Arte Veneta, 1954, p. 324, fig. 322.
Exhibited
Wellesley, MA, Wellesley College, Jewett Art Center, and New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, Eighteenth century Italian drawings, no. 18 (frontispiece).
Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, 18th century Venetian art in Canadian collections, 1989, no. 61.
Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, 18th century Venetian art in Canadian collections, 1989, no. 61.
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