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

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Domenico Mondo

The Virgin Immaculate in Glory

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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

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Domenico Mondo

Capodrise 1717/23(?) - 1806 Naples

The Virgin Immaculate in Glory


Pen and brown ink and gray and brown wash over red chalk, heightened with white

302 by 214 mm; 12 by 8 3/8 in

Philippsohn Collection, New Jersey;
with C. & J. Goodfriend, New York,
where acquired, 1996
Age of Elegance, The Rococo and its Effect, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art, 1959, p. 71 no. 267 (as Maulbertsch, The Ascension of the Virgin)

Another version of this composition is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.1


1. J. Bean & W.M. Griswold, 18th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, exhib. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990, cat. no. 137, fig. no. 137, p. 149, reproduced.