Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1727-1804
Christ and the Adulteress
10 3/4 x 16 13/16 inches (273 x 427 mm)
Pen and dark brown ink on light brown paper; extraneous traces of red chalk.
1983.49
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscription attributed by Janos Scholz to Rene de Cérenville (1875-1968).
Although formerly attributed to Giambattista Tiepolo, whose drawings it somewhat resembles, this impressive, large sketch is instead an early work by his son Domenico. Domenico entered his father's workshop about 1740. The sheet is identical in style to a number of other drawings, some of which bear the signature of the younger artist. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Inscription attributed by Janos Scholz to Rene de Cérenville (1875-1968).
Although formerly attributed to Giambattista Tiepolo, whose drawings it somewhat resembles, this impressive, large sketch is instead an early work by his son Domenico. Domenico entered his father's workshop about 1740. The sheet is identical in style to a number of other drawings, some of which bear the signature of the younger artist. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, in graphite, "G.B."
Associated names
Saint-Saphorin, Armand-François-Louis de Mestral de, 1738-1805, former owner.
Bovet, Alfred, 1859- former owner.
Burnand, Eugène, 1850-1921, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bovet, Alfred, 1859- former owner.
Burnand, Eugène, 1850-1921, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 304.
Classification
Century Drawings
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