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Allegory of Hope

Maker

(artist)
1696-1770

Title

Allegory of Hope

Date of Production

c. 1730-1732

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 25.6 cm
Width: 18.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.150

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

possibly given by the artist’s son Domenico to Johann Dominik Bossi, Munich (1767-1853); by descent to his daughter Maria Theresa Caroline (1825-1881) and her husband, Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (1826-1881); their estate sale, H.G. Gutekunst (Stuttgart), 27 March 1882; a 'foreign nobleman', possibly Prince Trivulzio, whose property was consigned by Pollak and Winternitz (Vienna) to Sotheby's (London), 13 July 1937, lot 52; purchased there by Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965), presumably on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982-30/01/1983

Literature

Loggia del Lionello, Udine, 1965, Disegni del Tiepolo, 1965
p. 65 under no. 19

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 150
pl. CX

Tiepolo: Zeichnungen von Giambattista, Domenico und Lorenzo Tiepolo, Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1970, 1970
p. 18 under no. 6 ...More

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 150

Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982- 30/01/1983, cat. by Helen Braham
cat. no. no. 3 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, graphite: “La Speranza”. Verso: lower centre, graphite: “498” [suggested in Knox 1980 to be related to the lot in the 1882 Bossi-Beyerlen sale]; lower left corner, brown ink, crossed out in brown ink: “f. 2. 30. x” [value in florins]; lower centre edge, brown ink: “No. 3614. Xrs. 24.” [value in Austrian kreutzers, written “Xrs”, found only on Bossi-Beyerlen drawings and suggested by Knox 1980 to be Domenico’s own code] .

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