From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings
From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Recto: Study for the Assumption of the Virgin Verso: Studies of Drapery and two legs
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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Venice 1696 - 1770 Madrid
Recto: Study for the Assumption of the Virgin
Verso: Studies of Drapery and two legs
Pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk (recto); Black chalk (verso)
264 by 333 mm; 10 3/8 by 13 1/8 in
Private Collection, France;
with St. Luke's Gallery, Washington D.C., (as Venetian School, 18th Century),
where acquired, 1993
with St. Luke's Gallery, Washington D.C., (as Venetian School, 18th Century),
where acquired, 1993
B. Aikema, Tiepolo and His Circle, Drawings in American Collections, Cambridge and New York, 1996, p. 7, no. 4, p. 8, fig 1.;
G. Knox, '1996: The Tiepolo Year,' Kunstchronik, 50 (1997), p. 3 (illus);
K. Christiansen, Review of 'Tiepolo and his Circle,' Master Drawings, 35 (1997), p. 296;
B. Aikema, 'La Formazione artistica di Giovan Battista Tiepolo: I disegni,' in Giambattista Tiepolo nel terzo centenario della nascita, Venice, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 21-22, vol. 2, p. 13 figs. 1-2;
G. Knox, A Panorama of Tiepolo Drawings, s.1., 2008, p. 14, pl. 1
G. Knox, '1996: The Tiepolo Year,' Kunstchronik, 50 (1997), p. 3 (illus);
K. Christiansen, Review of 'Tiepolo and his Circle,' Master Drawings, 35 (1997), p. 296;
B. Aikema, 'La Formazione artistica di Giovan Battista Tiepolo: I disegni,' in Giambattista Tiepolo nel terzo centenario della nascita, Venice, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 21-22, vol. 2, p. 13 figs. 1-2;
G. Knox, A Panorama of Tiepolo Drawings, s.1., 2008, p. 14, pl. 1