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)

Saint Anthony of Padua holding the Christ Child, supported by angels

Details

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
Saint Anthony of Padua holding the Christ Child, supported by angels
signed 'Dom°. Tiepolo f' and numbered '32'
pen and black ink, grey and brown wash, indistinct watermark
10 5/8 x 7¼ in. (27 x 18.4 cm.)

Provenance

The Earl of Beauchamp; Christie's, London, 15 June 1965, lot 35 (unsold).
Christie's, London, 28 June 1966, lot 125.
with the H. Shickman Gallery, New York; from whom acquired in 1967 by the former owner; thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo executed many drawings of this appealing subject: the Beauchamp sale alone included nineteen variations on the theme (lots 19-38) and many have come to light since. J. Byam-Shaw, who regarded the subject as the 'most charming of Domenico’s religious series' (The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1962, p. 34), observed that it derived from an oval painting by his father Giovanni Battista, now in the Prado (Giambattista Tiepolo 1696-1770, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Petit Palais, 1998, pp. 234-5).

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