Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Angels in flight blowing trumpets
Auction Closed
January 31, 05:59 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Estate of William J. Levy, Sold to Benefit the Endowed Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Venice 1727 - 1804
Angels in flight blowing trumpets
Pen and black ink and gray wash;
signed in brown ink, lower center: Dom. Tiepolo f
201 by 284 mm; 8 by 11¼ in.
Earl of Beauchamp,
his sale, London, Christie's, 15 June 1965, lot 57
with P. & D. Colnaghi, London;
sale, New York, Christie's, 28 January 2000, lot 40
It is not known why Giandomenico executed his series of drawings with angels, putti and amorini, although this group could have been inspired by Giambattista's decoration of the Stanza dei Putti in Villa Valmarana, Vicenza, commissioned in 1757.
This sheet was once part of an album bound in simple paper boards, inscribed: 'DISEGNI A PENA DA CUADRETTI GIO: DOMENICO FIGLIO DI GIO: BATA': TIEPOLO CON ALCUNI DEL SUDETTO'. The album, which bore the bookplate of Horace Walpole, was dismantled at the time of the Beauchamp sale in 1965 (see Provenance).
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