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Study for 'The Miracle of Saint Patrick'

Maker

(artist)
1696-1770

Title

Date of Production

c. 1746

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 45.4 cm
Width: 30.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.382

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 NB: 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, 'Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo at Princeton' in 'Record of the Art Museum Princeton University', 1964; XXIII, 1
p. 9 under no. 10

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7. Addenda, London 1969; V
no. 382
pl. LXIX

Bean, Jacob, Italian drawings in the Art Museum Princeton University, Princeton University 1966
p. 50 under no. 80 ...More

Knox, George, 'Tiepolo Drawings from the Saint-Saphorin Collection' in Atti del Congresso internazionale di studi sul Tiepolo con un'appendice sulla Mostra, Milan, 1972, pp. 58-63.
p. 59
Knox believes this drawing came from the Saint-Saphorin collection.

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. 14

Tiepolo and his circle: drawings in American collections, Harvard University Art Museum; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1996-1997, 1996
p. 164 under no. 60 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: three Venetian crescents.

Inscription: Verso: lower centre, graphite: “Gian_Battista Tiepolo / Project original pour le tableau / du Musée Municipal à Padoua / “St Paulin guérit un obsède.” //”; lower right, graphite: “GB” [proposed by N. Annesley as indicator of de Mestral provenance].

Collector's mark: none.

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