A crowd watching a charlatan (recto); A flying angel (verso)

Details

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
A crowd watching a charlatan (recto); A flying angel (verso)
with inscription 'Domenico Tiepolo'
black chalk, pen and brown ink (recto), pen and brown ink (verso)
8 3/8 x 10 7/8 in. (21.4 x 27.6 cm.)

Provenance

Hélie de Talleyrand-Perigord, duc de Sagan.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 21 January 2004, lot 96, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

A. Morassi, Dessins Vénitiens du Dix-huitième Siècle de la collection du Duc de Talleyrand, Milan, 1958, no. 39.
A.M. Gealt and G. Knox, Domenico Tiepolo, master draftsman, exh. cat., Bloomington, Indiana University, 1996, pp. 44-45.

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Lot Essay

Domenico made many compositions after his observations of contemporary life, some of which became the inspiration for his Punchinello and Scenes from every day life series. He depicted the charlatan subject in several other drawings (see A. Mariuz,

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