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Seated lion
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1729-1804
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1712-1793
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Width: 18.5 cm
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The lion is traditionally associated with Mark the Evangelist, patron saint of Venice. Depictions of lions feature prominently on the city’s monuments, such as the façade of Saint Mark’s Basilica or the four statues guarding the entrance of the Arsenal. One of them, the Piraeus Lion, dates to around 360 BCE. It was brought to Venice in 1684 from its original location in the harbour of Athens. Novelli may have taken inspiration from this famous sculpture to draw the saint’s celebrated animal companion.
Provenance
Exhibition History
Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982-30/01/1983
Literature
no. 133 bis
pl. XCIII bis
as by Guardi, before 1760
Morassi, Antonio, Guardi: tutti i disegni di Antonio, Francesco e Giacomo Guardi, Venice 1975
no. 446
fig. 448
as by Guardi
Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982- 30/01/1983, cat. by Helen Braham
no. 36 ...More
Byam Shaw, James and George Knox, The Robert Lehman Collection. Italian Eighteenth-century drawings, Princeton 1987; 6
pp. 79-80 under no. 64
as by Novelli ...Less
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Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in purple: Giuseppe Chiantorre (L.540).
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, graphite, difficult to read due to pink preparation, two words: “Borou […]” (? “Borou” also appears on verso of D.1978.PG.133; Seilern read it as "Bernini fecit" but this does not match). Verso: lower right edge, graphite, Colnaghi inventory number: “A 22854 CHX”.
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