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Lot 47
  • 47

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description

  • Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
  • Caricature of a man seen from behind
  • Pen and brown ink and wash, the corners cut

Provenance

G. Morelli (L.1902)

Condition

All four corners cut. A crease on the lower right side and a few light brown stains scattered to the right and left side of the sheet, more pronounced in the image in the catalogue. Otherwise condition is good.
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Catalogue Note

Several other caricatures, mostly by Giambattista, also with all corners cut and often with pen and ink framing lines, were in the collection of the art historian Giovanni Morelli (1816-1891).  Eight of these, all by Giambattista, are now in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan.  They were formerly in the collection of Gustavo Frizzoni, who inherited some of Morelli's collection of drawings.1  Frizzoni also left to the Brera a caricature of a monk by Giandomenico.2  There was obviously more than one album of such caricatures in the Tiepolo family.  The 'Tomo terzo de caricature' which included 107 drawings, mostly by Giambattista (datable circa 1754-62), seems to have stayed in the possession of Giandomenico and served him as inspiration.  He sometimes included figures from his father's caricatures in his own drawings.

1. G. Bora, I disegni della Collezione Morelli, Cinisello B. (Milan) 1988, nos. 89-92, reproduced

2. F. Malaguzzi Valeri, I Disegni della R. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan 1906, no. 19