Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Venice 1727 - 1804

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

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Description

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
St. Lawrence Carried Up to Heaven by Angels
signed in brown ink, lower left: Dom. Tiepolo f.
pen and grey ink and wash

Provenance

Francesco Guardi;
Horace Walpole;
The Earl of Beauchamp, his sale, London, Christie's, 15 June 1965, lot 41;
Curtis O. Baer, Atlanta;
thence by inheritance to Mr. & Mrs. George Baer

Exhibited

Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, et al., Master Drawings from Titian to Picasso, The Curtis O. Baer Collection, 1985-7, no. 21

Catalogue Note

This drawing of Saint Lawrence was one of five treatments of the subject in an album that was probably assembled betweenn 1783 and 1797. The album was apprently sold by Giandomenico's uncle, Francesco Guardi, to the writer and collector Horace Walpole. In the five drawings, Giandomenico varied the position of the saint's arms and head and the placement of his attribute, the grill; only in the Baer drawing, however, does the artist give the saint a halo.