Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
The Baptism of Christ
Auction Closed
January 26, 04:31 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Venice 1727 - 1804
The Baptism of Christ
Pen and brown ink and wash;
signed in brown ink, lower left: Domo. Tiepolo f
260 by 193 mm; 10¼ by 7½ in.
probably his sale, New York, The Anderson Galleries, 10 December 1918;
Private Collection, New York
This subject was one to which Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo returned many times, creating numerous variations on the theme. The group is dateable to circa 1770 and many are housed in various public and private collections. Thirteen were offered in the Beauchamp sale at Christie’s on 15 June 1965 and the greatest number is in the Print Room at Stuttgart.1 There is only one known painting of the subject by the artist, in the Museo Stibbert, Florence, but it is horizontal in format and cannot be directly related to the drawings.2
1. G. Knox, Tiepolo, exhib. cat., Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlung, 1971, pp. 57-62, cat. 44-56
2. A. Mariuz, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Venice 1971, pl. 305