GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO | ZEPHYR, STANDING IN PROFILE TO THE RIGHT, HOLDING A CORNUCOPIA
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January 29, 05:09 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 USD
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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO
Venice 1727 - 1804
ZEPHYR, STANDING IN PROFILE TO THE RIGHT, HOLDING A CORNUCOPIA
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk;
signed in pen and brown ink, lower right: Dom. Tiepolo f and bears inscription, verso: Zefiro (according to the 2004 sale catalogue, but no longer visible as sheet is now laid down)
284 by 115 mm; 11¼ by 4½ in
Sale, London, Christie's, 6 July 2004, lot 81
This is a fine example of one Giovanni Domenico's drawings related to garden sculpture. The group of drawings are generally single figures, as seen here, and are probably inspired by Giovanni Battista's similar studies which George Knox connected to the sculptural decorations of Villa Cordellina. Giovanni Battista worked there in 1743 when his son was only sixteen, but Giovanni Domenico could have also seen them in 1757, when both artists were working nearby at Villa Valmarana.
Another similar study of a standing figure holding a cornucopia, seen in profile, looking left, was sold at Sotheby's London in 1973.1 Other examples can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.2
1. Sale, London, Sotheby's, 19 June 1973, lot 218
2. J. Byam Shaw, The Robert Lehman Collection, Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings, New York, 1987, nos. 136-8 and J. Bean and W. Griswold, Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, nos. 246-7