Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Two Zephyrs with a Horse of Apollo
9 5/8 x 15 5/16 inches (244 x 389 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.
IV, 120
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
One of a series of 108 drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo from an album bearing the title, "TIEPOLO DESSINS ORIGINAUX", inscribed by Edward Cheney, "E.C. Venice 1852 May 31 / bought from the Conte Corniani Algarotti".
In this drawing, two of Apollo's attendants restrain one of the horses of the sun god's quadriga. The drawing corresponds almost exactly to a detail in an oil sketch in the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, that Giambattista Tiepolo executed in preparation for his 1740 fresco in the Palazzo Clerici, Milan. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Regarding the drawings for Palazzo Clerici, at the Morgan and elsewhere, see William Barcham, Tiepolo's Pictorial Imagination: Drawings for Palazzo Clerici (New York, Morgan Drawing Institute, 2017).
Watermark: Trefoil below letters "PA". Same watermark on IV, 113a.
In this drawing, two of Apollo's attendants restrain one of the horses of the sun god's quadriga. The drawing corresponds almost exactly to a detail in an oil sketch in the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, that Giambattista Tiepolo executed in preparation for his 1740 fresco in the Palazzo Clerici, Milan. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Regarding the drawings for Palazzo Clerici, at the Morgan and elsewhere, see William Barcham, Tiepolo's Pictorial Imagination: Drawings for Palazzo Clerici (New York, Morgan Drawing Institute, 2017).
Watermark: Trefoil below letters "PA". Same watermark on IV, 113a.
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Watermark: trefoil below letters "PA".
Associated names
Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712-1764, former owner.
Algarotti, Bonomo, 1706-1776, former owner.
Algarotti-Corniani, Maria, former owner.
Corniani, Bernardino, conte, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Cure, Alfred Capel, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Algarotti, Bonomo, 1706-1776, former owner.
Algarotti-Corniani, Maria, former owner.
Corniani, Bernardino, conte, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Cure, Alfred Capel, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 120.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings from New York Collections III, The 18th Century in Italy, 1971, p. 47, no. 79, repr.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings from New York Collections III, The 18th Century in Italy, 1971, p. 47, no. 79, repr.
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