Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO | PUTTI IN THE CLOUDS
Auction Closed
January 29, 05:09 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO
Venice 1727 - 1804
PUTTI IN THE CLOUDS
Pen and brown ink and gray and brown wash over traces of black chalk;
signed in pen and brown ink, lower left: Dom. Tiepolo f and numbered in pen and brown ink, upper left: 53 (?)
205 by 277 mm; 8⅛ by 11 in
Horace Walpole;
The Rt. Hon. Earl of Beauchamp,
his sale, London, Christie's 15 June 1965, lot 101, reproduced
This charming study of Putti in the clouds and lot 61 both came from the Earl of Beauchamp's collection, where they were offered together with a number of other drawings of the same subject. It is not known why Tiepolo made these studies of putti and amorini, although the substantial series may have been inspired by Giovanni Battista's decorations in the Stanza dei Putti at the Villa Valmarana.