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The Education of the Virgin Mary, after Tiepolo

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Antonio Guardi
1699-1760

The Education of the Virgin Mary, after Tiepolo

ca. 1732
16 1/8 x 10 3/8 inches (410 x 264 mm)
Red chalk, verso: red chalk.
2024.116

Gift of Kate Tapley in honor of her parents, Donald F. and Caroline R. Tapley

Notes
One of the many drawings by Antonio Guardi that copy the works of other Venetian masters, this is a study after Giambattista Tiepolo's Education of the Virgin altarpiece of 1732 in S. Maria della Fava, Venice. For recent discussions of Guardi's copies, see William Barcham, “The Issue of Copies: Three Drawings by Giannantonio Guardi in New York,” Artibus et Historiae 83 (2021), and Denis Ton, ed., Antonio Guardi: I Fasti Veneziani (Venice & Turin, 2023).
There is a slight sketch on the verso of a seated man with a compass or dividers and a globe, seemingly also copied, though the source has not yet been identified.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, at lower left, by “the reliable Venetian hand”: [da] Gianbatista Tiepolo Veneziano.
Associated names
Tapley, Donald, b. 1927, former owner.
Tapley, Caroline Rosalie former owner.
Tapley, Kate, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department