GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (1727-1804) AFTER GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (1696–1770)
GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (1727-1804) AFTER GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (1696–1770)

Venus entrusting Cupid to Time

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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (1727-1804) AFTER GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (1696–1770)
Venus entrusting Cupid to Time
etching, circa 1758, on thick laid paper, watermark Three Crescent Moons with Letters IMPERIAL, a very good impression of this rare print, with inky plate edges and with the penitmenti above the putto at right still visible, with margins
Plate 456 x 288 mm.
Sheet 486 x 356 mm.
Provenance
Camille Rogier (1810-1896); removed from a Tiepolo album compiled before 1840 in Italy (according to Rumbler).
With Helmuth H. Rumbler Kunsthandel, Frankfurt am Main, 1990, catalogue 26, no. 77.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
De Vesme 100; Rizzi 148

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Lot Essay

This large etching by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo is based on an oval-shaped painting by his father Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Commissioned as part of the decorations of a Palazzo of the Contarini family in Venice and executed between 1753 and 1758, it remained in situ until 1855, when it was removed and shipped to London. It was restored at the National Gallery in the 1960s and eventually sold in these rooms in 1969, when the National Gallery was able to acquire it. Giovanni Domenico's airy etching shows the composition in reverse.

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