Old Master & British Drawings Sale

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Lot 124
  • 124

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
  • a stag and his family
  • Pen and black ink and grey wash over traces of black chalk, within brown ink framing lines
    signed in pen and black ink: Domo Tiepolo f

Condition

Glued at four corners. A white stain running through the right leg of the top deer. Overall the drawing is in good condition, the pen and ink and wash very fresh.
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Catalogue Note

This attractive study of a stag and his family is characteristic of many of Giandomenico's animal subjects in its arrangement on a kind of ledge, on which the artist has placed his signature.  Interestingly, he used this grouping on the left of a larger composition of Three Gentlemen Observing a Herd of Deer, formerly in the collection of H.S. Reitlinger.1

Giandomenico's studies of animals are varied and admired.  They are generally dated late in his career and connected with the decorations he painted in the family villa at Zianigo.  Some of his subject matter can be traced to the prints of Johann Elias Ridinger, such as the mountain goat standing on a rock, which appears in a drawing formerly in the collection of H.S. Reitlinger, and which Tiepolo, as with the present example, incorporated in several larger compositions.2  See also lot 118. 

1. Sold, London, Sotheby's, 9 December 1953, lot 104

2. J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London 1962, p. 83, no. 53, reproduced and another sold London, Sotheby's, 11 November 1965, lot 27