Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION (LOTS 101-2, 107-8, 110-1, 126, 127-8, 136, 149-50, 153-5, 157-9 AND 183)
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)

The Baptism of Christ

Details
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
The Baptism of Christ
signed 'Dom. Tiepolo f.' (on the base of the rock, lower centre) and numbered '61' (upper left)
pen and brown ink, grey and black wash
11 3/8 x 8 1/8 in. (29 x 20.4 cm.)
Provenance
The Earl of Beauchamp; Christie's, London, 15 June 1965, lot 9.
with H. Shickman Gallery, New York, from which acquired by the former owner; thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

One of an extensive series of drawings of the same subject, thirteen versions of which were included in the Beauchamp sale (lots 6-18). Further examples of the theme are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (K.T. Parker, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1956, II, no. 1089) and in the Robert Lehman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, which possesses six drawings from the group (J. Byam Shaw and G. Knox, Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection, New York, 1987, nos. 114-119; here there is a further discussion of drawings from the series in other collections). The drawings are related to a picture of the same subject in the Museo Stibbert in Florence (A. Mariuz, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Venice, 1971, p. 119, pl. 305).

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