GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO | HERCULES AND ANTAEUS
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January 29, 05:09 PM GMT
Estimate
14,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO
Venice 1727 - 1804
HERCULES AND ANTAEUS
Pen and grey and black ink and gray wash over black chalk;
signed in pen and black ink, lower right: Dom. Tiepolo and numbered in pen and black ink, upper left: 94 (?) (partially cut)
215 by 145 mm; 8½ by 5¾ in
This strong and powerful depiction of Hercules and Antaeus belongs to a series of drawings, all illustrating this bold mythological subject, which was one of the artist's favourite themes to draw and which he explored repeatedly towards the end of his career.
An album containing thirty-eight depictions of this subject was formerly in the Bordes collection and was dismembered between 1936 and 1941. These are now dispersed between various public and private collections. James Byam Shaw pointed out that this theme may have been connected with the decorations of the Tiepolo Villa at Zianigo.1
1. J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London 1962, p. 38, pl. 34