Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Cupid and a group of winged putti playing in the clouds
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January 27, 05:29 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Venice 1727 - 1804
Cupid and a group of winged putti playing in the clouds
Pen and brown and gray ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk;
signed lower left: Domo Tiepolo f and bears numbering in pen and brown ink, upper left: 124
200 by 285 mm; 7 ⅞ by 11 ¼ in
This drawing was once part of an album and, as Byam Shaw has pointed out, these studies of Cupid and Putti may perhaps be considered as a coherent series, as they were apparently numbered as such at an early date. A substantial number were formerly in the Beauchamp collection.1Byam Shaw proposes that the source of inspiration for the whole series may have been the ceiling painting by Giandomenico now in the Musée Rothschild-Ephrussi at Cap-Ferrat, and suggests that the drawings should be dated some time after Domenico's return from Spain in 1770.
1. Sale, London, Christie's, 15 June 1965, lots 87-121