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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Estimate
15,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Recto: a sheet of several studies: a foot, a head of a youth in profile, and two bottles verso: study of a right arm with a closed hand
- Black chalk (recto and verso) heightened with white chalk (recto) on buff paper;
bears old attribution, top left margin, in pen and brown ink: Piazzetta and numbering: 24
Provenance
Sale, London, Christie's, 8 December 1981, lot 66 (as Attributed to Giovanni Battista Piazzetta)
Condition
Hinged to the mount at the upper margin. Chalk remains fresh and strong. There are several small tears located around the margins of the sheet, the larger ones are located at the lower left margin. There are also several areas where red chalk has come into contact with the paper, visible at the right hand margin and also at the upper left margin by the foot (there is some red on the verso too). There also appears to be a small water stain at the left margin. The sheet has a few faint creases at the lower section of the sheet. The chalk however is still strong and the main condition issues appear at the edges of the paper. Sold in a giltwood frame.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
This is a characteristic double-sided sheet by the young Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, clearly strongly influenced by Piazzetta, as the old attribution on the drawing indicates. According to George Knox there are about sixteen known drawings which must have come from the same album. These are all numbered between 7 and 66 and bear the same old attribution to Piazzetta in pen and ink in the top left-hand corner. Five of these are in the Accademia di Carrara, Bergamo and four were published by Ugo Ruggeri as Giambattista Tiepolo and related to his frescoes, painted in 1726 for the gallery of the Archbishop's Palace, Udine. Knox has rightly pointed out, when writing about the present sheet for a private publication, that the head of the youth is very close to that of the angel in Giambattista's fresco The Angel appearing to Sarah, also in the Archbishop's Palace, Udine.1
1. A. Morassi, G. B. Tiepolo, His Life and Work, London 1955, reproduced pl. 6