Rinaldo abandoning Armida

Details

GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENICE 1727-1804)
Rinaldo abandoning Armida
pen and black ink, gray wash
9 ¾ x 7 ¼ in. (25 x 18.4 cm)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 13 January 1993, lot 64.

Exhibited

Udine, Castello di Udine, and Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, Domenico Tiepolo, Master Draftsman, 1996-1997, no. 134, ill. [Italian edition titled Giandomenico Tiepolo. Maestria e gioco. Disegni dal mondo] (catalogue by A.M. Gealt and G. Knox).

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Lot Essay

This drawing is part of a series of studies with episodes from Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata. The epic love story of Rinaldo and Armida (XVI, 22-60) was treated in a fresco decoration by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in the Villa Valmarana, near Vicenza, and later translated into a series of etchings by his son Domenico. Six other similar sheets depicting Rinaldo and Armida by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo were in an album of drawings, once owned by Horace Walpole and disbound in 1965 (Christie’s, London, 15 June 1965, lots 124-129).

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