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Angel holding a monstrance - study for 'Saint Paschal's Vision of the Eucharist'

Maker

(artist)
1696-1770

Title

Angel holding a monstrance - study for 'Saint Paschal's Vision of the Eucharist'

Date of Production

(circa) 1767 - 1770

Medium

red and white chalk with stumping on blue laid paper

Comparison to a related drawing in the Morgan Library 2021.34 suggests these papers were always a murky gray rather than being a faded blue paper.

Dimensions

Height: 31.6 cm
Width: 25.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.168

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





Related Works

Saint Paschal Baylon's Vision of the Eucharist

Label Text

During the last years of his career, Tiepolo painted seven altarpieces for the Church of San Pascual in Aranjuez, Spain. Besides the present sketch, the Courtauld’s collection holds four painted modelli for this commission (smaller versions of the yet-to-be-finished paintings intended for patrons’ approval). This drawing is an initial idea for an angel in the church’s high altarpiece, which now survives only in two fragments at the Prado Museum, Madrid. Early studies show the figure wearing a humeral veil, a richly decorated ornamental liturgical vestment. The omission of this detail in the present drawing and the final altarpiece indicates that the sketch belongs to a later stage of the creative process. The vigorous execution hints at a creative excitement one associates with a younger artist, even though Tiepolo was in his mid-seventies.

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; purchased there by Dr O. Eisenmann, Cassel, on behalf of Wilhelm Lübke (1826-1893); Henry Oppenheimer, London (1859-1932); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 10 and 13 - 14 July 1936, lot 180; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Exhibition History

All Spirit and Fire - Oil Sketches by Tiepolo, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 23/02/2006-29/05/2006

Material Evidence, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/10/1998-24/01/1999

The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 29/01/1982-25/07/1982

Literature

Material Evidence, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1998-1999
unpaginated

Facetten des Barock : Meisterzeichnungen von Gianlorenzo Bernini bis Anton Raphael Mengs aus dem Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf/Akademiesammlung, Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, 1990, 1990
p. 147

Farr, Dennis, 100 Masterpieces from the Courtauld Collections, London: Courtauld Institute Galleries, 1987
p. 174
ill. on p. 175 ...More

The Princes Gate Collection - Drawings (Selection B), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1982
cat. no. 184

Knox, George, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: a study and catalogue raisonné of the chalk drawings, Oxford 1980
no. M.294

Knox, George, Catalogue of the Tiepolo Drawings in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2nd ed. 1975
p. 29

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 168

Tiepolo: Zeichnungen von Giambattista, Domenico und Lorenzo Tiepolo, Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, 1970, 1970
p. 142 under no. 166

Loggia del Lionello, Udine, 1965, Disegni del Tiepolo, 1965
p. 27 and p. 118 under no. 118

Morassi, Antonio, A complete catalogue of the paintings of G.B. Tiepolo, London 1962
p. 21

Levey, Michael, 'Count Seilern's Italian pictures and drawings' in 'Burlington Magazine', March 1960 - pp. 122-23; 102, 684
p. 123

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 168
pl. CXXIX

Sánchez-Cantón, Francisco, J.B. Tiépolo en España, Madrid 1953
pp. 19, 34

Sánchez-Cantón, Francisco, The Prado Museum: pictures, statues, drawings, & jewels; Selection and historical notes, Madrid 1949
p. 632 under no. 364

Sánchez-Cantón, Francisco, 'Bocetos y dibujos de Tiépolo' in 'Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueologia', 1929 - pp. 137-43; 5
p. 143
ill.

Hadeln, Detlev Baron von, Handzeichnungen von G.B. Tiepolo, Munich and Florence 1927
pl. 188 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre: double letters “WM” (variant of Heawood 3037 - London 1722).

Inscription: Verso: upper centre and right edge, graphite: “Dom. Venedig Museo Civico.”; lower centre, graphite: “436” [suggested in Knox 1980 to be related to the lot in the 1882 Bossi-Beyerlen sale]; lower left, brown ink: “[“f” scratched out] 48. Xrs. No. 3190” [the “4” written over a “3”; comparing currency in florins to Austrian kreutzers, written “Xrs”, found only on Bossi-Beyerlen drawings and suggested by Knox 1980 to be Domenico’s own code].

Collector's mark: none.

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