Saint Anthony of Padua with the Christ Child in glory with angels

Details

GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727–1804)
Saint Anthony of Padua with the Christ Child in glory with angels
signed 'Dom.^o Tiepolo f.' (lower left); numbered '101' (upper left)
black chalk, pen and black ink, black and grey wash
24.4 x 18.1 cm (9 5/8 x 7 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Possibly the artist’s uncle, Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), Venice, circa 1783, as part of an album.
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1717-1797), London and Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, as part of an album.
William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp, Madresfield Court, Worcestershire; Christie’s, London, 15 June 1965, lot 21 (sold for 800 gns. to Maas).
Anonymous sale; London, Sotheby’s, 3 July 1996, lot 95 (bought in).
with Flavia Ormond, London (Italian Old Master Drawings 1500-1850, 1997, no. 11, ill.).
Private collection, U.S.A.

Literature

W. Schulz, ‘Tiepolo-Probleme. Ein Antonius-Album von Giandomenico Tiepolo’, Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, XL, 1978, p. 72.
J. Byam Shaw, ‘Some Unpublished Drawings by Giandomenico Tiepolo’, Master Drawings, XVII, no. 3, Autumn 1979, p. 240, under no. 2.

Exhibited

Stanford University, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Classic Taste. Drawings and Decorative Arts from the Collection of Horace Brock, 2000, unpaginated.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Splendor and Elegance. European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, 2009, no. 96, ill. (essay by Clifford S. Ackley).

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Lot Essay

The sheet is part of a series of drawings in which Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo explored in numerous variations the theme of Saint Anthony of Padua holding the infant Christ (see J. Byam Shaw, Drawings by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, London, 1962, pp. 31-32, 34). A group of twenty of these compositions, including the present one, were mounted together in the so-called Beauchamp Album, which comprised a total of 162 drawings by the artist and was assembled sometime between 1783 and 1793. The album was probably owned by the artist’s uncle, the painter Francesco Guardi. The Beauchamp Album, which bore the bookplate of Horace Walpole, one of its subsequent owners, was dispersed at auction in 1965.

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