Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

1727-1804

Sketch for a Ceiling Decoration Showing Two Lute-Playing Angels Sitting on a Balustrade

ca. 1754.

Red chalk, with white chalk, on blue paper.

7 15/16 x 13 1/2 inches (201 x 343 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

IV, 151f

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Notes:

There has long been confusion regarding the attribution of the large number of drawings in red (or, in some cases, black) chalk on blue paper that are connected with works painted by Giambattista Tiepolo in the early 1750s. The figures in this drawing, for example, correspond to a passage in the ceiling fresco that Giambattista painted in 1754-55 in the church of Santa Maria della Pietà, Venice. It would nevertheless appear that this sheet and others like it are copies (or record drawings) made not by Giambattista but by his son Domenico for future use in the Tiepolo studio. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso, in pen and brown ink, "f. L. G. J. N-3260 // 173"; numbered in graphite, "743 // 61 // 8".

Provenance:

Domenico Tiepolo's pupil Giovanni Domenico Bossi, Munich; his daughter, Maria Theresa Caroline Bossi, Stuttgart; her husband, Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen, Stuttgart; probably sale, Stuttgart, H.G. Gutekunst, 27 March, 1882; Edward Habich, Kassel; sale, Stuttgart, H. G. Gutekunst, 1899, lot 647; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Bossi, Giovanni Domenico, former owner.
Bossi, Maria Theresa Caroline, 1825-1881, former owner.
Beyerlen, Carl Christian Friedrich, 1826-1881, former owner.
Habich, Edward, 1818-1901, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography:

Aikema, Bernard. Tiepolo and His Circle : Drawings in American Collections. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Art Museum ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1996, no. 109, repr.

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