Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Italico Brass

Window mounted with Japan paper . Slightly cleaned at some point , paper slightly buckled. Tip point of top right margin missing, slight surface dirt and two very light small beige staines at the top edge. Overall in good condition. Sold mounted and in a wooden painted (green and beige) possibly 19th century frame.
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Giandomenico made many drawings of centaurs and satyrs and their families, and often depicted the story of Nessus and Dejanira. James Byam Shaw believed that these drawings were executed as independent works of art datable between 1761 and 1791. Jean Cailleux suggested a slightly earlier date around 1755.¹ He believed that the representations of Nessus and Dejanira may be among the earliest of Giandomenico's centaur drawings, but he stressed the difficulty of establishing a chronological sequence in the series as he rightly felt that any parallel which can be found with painted versions of the subject cannot be conclusive.

1. See Jean Cailleux, 'Centaurs, Fauns, Female Fauns and Satyrs among the drawings of Domenico Tiepolo', The Burlington Magazine, June 1974, no. 31, An Advertisement Supplement