Lot 93
  • 93

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Venice 1727 - 1804

Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 USD
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Description

  • Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
  • a leopardess with her cubs in a landscape
  • signed in brown ink: Dom. Tiepolo f
  • pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk

Provenance

Marquis de Biron;
Duc de Talleyrand

Literature

A. Morassi, Dessins Vénitiens du Dix-huitième siècle de la Collection du Duc de Talleyrand, Milan 1958, p. 22, no. 45, reproduced;
Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton 1977, vol. I, p. 203, under cat. no. 660.

Catalogue Note

Another version of this composition is in the collection of the Art Museum, Princeton University (see Literature below).  A study of a leopard lying down was sold in these rooms, 29 January 1996, lot 62.  The animal appears in a similar pose in a cage in one of Domenico's Punchinello drawings, sold London, Sotheby's, 6 July 1967, lot 37 and now in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.