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Jonah commanded to arise and go into Ninevah (formerly 'Elijah in the wilderness')

Maker

(artist)
1696-1770

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1730

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 45.9 cm
Width: 27.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.378

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 acquired directly from the Tiepolo studio by Armand Louis François de Mestral de Saint-Saphorin (1738-1806) while serving as ambassador in Madrid; by descent to his heirs; acquired from them (in return for his assistance in dividing the collection between family members) by Dr Ferdinand de Cérenville; by descent to his sons Édouard and René Cérenville, Lausanne (1875-1968); acquired from them by Nathan Chaikin; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 20 June 1960; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 27 June 1960 (£1,500); Princes Gate Bequest 1978 Noel Annesley (2011 letter in file) believes the inscription on the verso of ‘GB’ in pencil is related to drawings that came from the de Mestral collection. The above provenance is based on his assumption, on information provided by Knox 1980 in his chapter on the de Mestrals, and from the Colnaghi archive book. This drawing was claimed in 1998 by an anonymous phone call to be a Hebborn fake, but based on the above provenance, it seems highly unlikely.

Exhibition History

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

Literature

Knox, George, A panorama of Tiepolo drawings, GEmediaprint A.G./S.A., 2008
cat. no. 16
no. 16
pp. 44-45

Knox, George, 'Giambattista Tiepolo & Pietro Monaco' in 'ARTE / documento', 1999 - pp. 264-69; 13
pp. 268-69
fig. 5 on p. 268

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; V
no. 378
pl. LXV ...More

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. 6 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto, centre: a heart containing letters “GB” surmounted by a cross; Verso: "Lorenzo" (pen and black ink)

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite, underlined: “G. B. Tiepolo”; lower right, dark brown ink: abraded and now illegible: lower right corner, graphite: “GB” [proposed by as an indicator of de Mestral provenance], a line below that in graphite has been erased and is now illegible.

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