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Bacchus
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1696-1770
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Width: 28.4 cm
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and his family’s workshop continued the Venetian tradition of using blue paper for drawing into the 18th century. Although the figure here is identified as Bacchus due to the wreath of grape leaves, this drawing probably belongs to a series of nude studies drawn from life, which are not connected to any known paintings. Rather, Tiepolo used these studies to explore hatching and tone when depicting the muscular nude form. The warm red chalk, approximating a skin tone, is complemented by the cool blue background.
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. 160
pl. CXX
Tiepolo: Zeichnungen von Giambattista, Domenico und Lorenzo Tiepolo, Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1970, 1970
p. 111 under no. 103
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 160 ...More
Knox, George, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: a study and catalogue raisonné of the chalk drawings, Oxford 1980
no. M.318
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. 18
Tiepolo and his circle: drawings in American collections, Harvard University Art Museum; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1996-1997, 1996
p. 280 under no. 103 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite: “Tiepolo”; lower centre, graphite: “1133” [suggested in Knox 1980 to be related to the lot in the 1882 Bossi-Beyerlen sale]; lower left edge, brown ink: “Xrs. 24. No. 3492.” [value in Austrian kreutzers, written “Xrs”, found only on Bossi-Beyerlen drawings and suggested by Knox 1980 to be Domenico’s own code]; lower right, graphite: “50”.
Collector's mark: none.
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