Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

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Property from the Collection formed by the Duc de Talleyrand

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Study of two figures seen from below

Auction Closed

January 26, 04:31 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection formed by the Duc de Talleyrand

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Venice 1696 - 1770 Madrid

Study of two figures seen from below


Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk

273 by 193 mm; 10¾ by 7½ in.

Marie-Pierre-Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duc de Talleyrand (1859-1937), Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt;
from whose heirs acquired by the British Rail Pension Fund;
with Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox Ltd, Eighteenth Century Venetian Drawings, London, 1993-4, no. 4;
from whom acquired in December 1993 by Patrick and Mavis Walker
A. Morassi, Dessins Vénitiens du Dix-huitième Siècle de la Collection du Duc de Talleyrand, Milan 1958, no. 18, reproduced
See note to the previous lot.