Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO | FOUR DOGS PLAYING IN A LANDSCAPE
Auction Closed
January 29, 05:09 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO
Venice 1727 - 1804
FOUR DOGS PLAYING IN A LANDSCAPE
Pen and black and gray ink and gray wash over black chalk;
signed twice in pen and black ink,lower right and brown ink, on the parapet: Dom. Tiepolo f.
258 by 220 mm; 10⅛ by 8⅝ in
Sale, London, Sotheby's, 11 December 1975, lot 53;
British Rail Pension Fund,
their sale, New York, Sotheby's, 8 January 1991, lot 218
London, Faerber & Maison Ltd., Old Master Drawings, presented by Yvonne Tan Bunzl, 1971, no. 46, pl. XVII;
Venice, Cini Foundation, Disegni veneti di collezioni ingelsi, 1980, no. 95, reproduced;
Canterbury, The Royal Museum, Guardi, Tiepolo and Canaletto..., 1985, no. 34
Animal drawings by Domenico are generally dated to the latter part of his career and associated with the decorations of the Tiepolo villa at Zianigo. James Byam Shaw suggested that Tiepolo was originally inspired by the animal prints of Stefano della Bella and by those of Johann Elias Ridinger, the Augsburg artist whom he may have met when he traveled to Wurzburg in 1750.1
1. J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London 1962, pp. 42-45