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Goddess seated on clouds

Maker

Attributed to
(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

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

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.

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