Lot 30
30
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)

A young man standing in profile, wearing a tall hat

Details
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid)
A young man standing in profile, wearing a tall hat
red and white chalk, on brown paper, unframed
14¼ x 5 7/8 in. (36.1 x 15 cm.)
Provenance
Armand-Louis-François de Mestral de Saint-Saphorin.
Dr and Mrs Malcolm W. Bick, Longmeadow, Mass.
Literature
G. Knox, 'Tiepolo drawings from the Saint-Saphorin collection', in Atti del Congresso internazionale di studi sul Tiepolo, Udine, 1970, p. 9.
G. Knox, Giovanni Battista and Domenico Tiepolo: a study and catalogue raisonné of the chalk drawings, Oxford, 1980, I, p. 193, no. K.10, II, pl. 257.
Exhibited
Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, Italian Drawings from the Bick Collection, 1971, no. 40.
Birmingham, Alabama, Museum of Art, The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates, January, 1978, no. 70.
Vancouver, Art Gallery, 18th Century Venetian Art in Canadian Collections, 1989, no. 57.
Special Notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.
Sale Room Notice
Please note further provenance for this lot:

Ferdinand de Cérenville;
René de Cérenville;
Nathan Chaikin.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 January 1986, lot 154.

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Lot Essay

Knox was the first to notice that this drawing is a study for Tiepolo's fresco The Glory of Spain. Executed on the ceiling of the throne room in the Palazzo Reale in 1764, this was the first major commission he completed after his arrival in Madrid in June 1762. The man with his unusually tall hat appears to the right-hand side of one of the stucco decorations in the corner of the fresco, above the original location of the throne (Fig. 1).

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