* Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Venice 1696 - 1770 Madrid

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Description

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
two figures and an angel
bears monogram in brown wash on stone slab: SR
bears inscriptions in black chalk, verso: Smlg. Seidl München/Museum Peaim
pen and black ink and watercolor

Provenance

Seidel Collection, Munich;
Eduard Sack (L.903a);
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 14 January 1987, lot 200

Catalogue Note

This is an early work by the artist, which can be dated circa 1720-25. The colored washes are unusual, but at the time of the 1987 sale George Knox pointed out the similar technique in a drawing in Frankfurt (see T. Pignatti, Tiepolo: Disegni, 1974, pl. VIII). The drawing comes from the collection of Eduard Sack, who wrote a monograph on Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo, published in Hamburg in 1910.