Goddess seated on clouds
Maker
Attributed to
(artist)
1727-1804
(artist)
1727-1804
Title
Goddess seated on clouds
Date of Production
(circa) 1750 - 1755
Medium
red and white chalk on blue laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 27.1 cm
Width: 24.2 cm
Width: 24.2 cm
Accession Number
D.1978.PG.166
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
a 'foreign nobleman', presumably Prince Trivulzio, whose property was consigned by Pollak and Winternitz (Vienna) to Sotheby's (London), 13 July 1937, lot 53; 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
Molmenti, Pompeo; translated by H.L. de Pereira, Tiepolo: la vie et l'oeuvre du peintre, Paris 1911
p. 180, erroneously as in Horne Museum
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 166
pl. CXXVII
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 166 ...More
Knox, George, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: a study and catalogue raisonné of the chalk drawings, Oxford 1980
no. M.314
Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982- 30/01/1983, cat. by Helen Braham ...Less
p. 180, erroneously as in Horne Museum
Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 166
pl. CXXVII
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 166 ...More
Knox, George, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: a study and catalogue raisonné of the chalk drawings, Oxford 1980
no. M.314
Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982- 30/01/1983, cat. by Helen Braham ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: Recto, lower left corner: two letters flanking a line, a “V” with a carrot inside it and an “I”?
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: none.
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