From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings
From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Caricature of a man with a muff
Auction Closed
January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Venice 1696 - 1770 Madrid
Caricature of a man with a muff
Pen and black ink and gray wash
209 by 218 mm; 8 1/4 by 6 in
Thomas Banks (1735-1805), London (L.2423);
Thomas Dimsdale (1758-1823), London (L.2426);
Unidentified collector's mark (L.975);
Baron Garner;
Private Collection, Zurich;
with Spencer Samuels, New York, French and Italian 18th Century Master Drawings, 1985, no. 17,
where acquired, 1985
Thomas Dimsdale (1758-1823), London (L.2426);
Unidentified collector's mark (L.975);
Baron Garner;
Private Collection, Zurich;
with Spencer Samuels, New York, French and Italian 18th Century Master Drawings, 1985, no. 17,
where acquired, 1985
This spirited caricature is very close in size, execution and style to others by Giovanni Battista in his Tomo terzo di caricature, dated by Knox to the period of 1754-62. The Tomo Terzo, formerly in the Algarotti-Corniani collection, was dismantled in order to be sold at Christie's on 9 April 1943. Tiepolo's caricatures must originally have been preserved in three volumes, and in an 1854 catalogue of the Algarotti-Corniani collection, two such volumes are listed, containing 'una copiosa collezione di disegni umoristici del Tiepolo'.1
1. G. Knox, Tiepolo, A Bicentenary Exhibition, exhib. cat., Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1970, no. 87