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 Domenico Tiepolo
St. Anthony of Padua with the Christ Child and Angels
Auction Closed
January 27, 09:35 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Venice 1727 - 1804
St. Anthony of Padua with the Christ Child and Angels
Pen and brown ink and wash;
signed in brown ink, lower right: Dom Tiepolo f and bears numbering, upper left: 5
260 by 184 mm; 10 1/4 by 7 3/8 in
Earl Beauchamp,
his sale, London, Christie's, 15 June 1965, lot 22;
with H. Shickman Gallery, New York,
where acquired, 1970
Giandomenico's extensive series of drawings of St. Anthony of Padua may have been inspired by his father's altarpiece of the subject painted in his last years for the church of San Pascual at Aranjuez, part of a commission for seven paintings possibly executed with the help of his sons. The subject had, however, also been very popular with Spanish artists of the seventeenth century. Byam Shaw observed that this is one of the most charming series among the artist's religious works1, with other drawings comparable to the present lot in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Morgan Library, New York.2
1. J. Byam Shaw, The Drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, London 1962, pp. 34-35, pl. 27
2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. no. 1975.1.480; The Morgan Library, New York, inv. nos. 1996.113-116