Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696-1770
Apollo Flanked by Two Figures and a Putto Holding a Quiver
ca. 1737-1740
10 x 14 inches (254 x 355 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.
IV, 110
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
One of a series of 108 drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo from an album bearing the title, "TIEPOLO DESSINS ORIGINAUX", inscribed by Edward Cheney, "E.C. Venice 1852 May 31 / bought from the Conte Corniani Algarotti".
One of a number of sketches datable to about 1740 in which Tiepolo employed a distinctive golden-brown wash, this drawing is a study for the figure of Apollo who appears in the center of the frescoed ceiling of the gallery of the Palazzo Clerici, Milan. The artist ultimately rejected the composition he explored in this drawing, opting instead to depict the god driving his chariot through a sun-filled empyrean. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Regarding the drawings for Palazzo Clerici, at the Morgan and elsewhere, see William Barcham, Tiepolo's Pictorial Imagination: Drawings for Palazzo Clerici (New York, Morgan Drawing Institute, 2017).
Watermark: none.
One of a number of sketches datable to about 1740 in which Tiepolo employed a distinctive golden-brown wash, this drawing is a study for the figure of Apollo who appears in the center of the frescoed ceiling of the gallery of the Palazzo Clerici, Milan. The artist ultimately rejected the composition he explored in this drawing, opting instead to depict the god driving his chariot through a sun-filled empyrean. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"
Regarding the drawings for Palazzo Clerici, at the Morgan and elsewhere, see William Barcham, Tiepolo's Pictorial Imagination: Drawings for Palazzo Clerici (New York, Morgan Drawing Institute, 2017).
Watermark: none.
Associated names
Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712-1764, former owner.
Algarotti, Bonomo, 1706-1776, former owner.
Algarotti-Corniani, Maria, former owner.
Corniani, Bernardino conte, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Cure, Alfred Capel, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Algarotti, Bonomo, 1706-1776, former owner.
Algarotti-Corniani, Maria, former owner.
Corniani, Bernardino conte, former owner.
Cheney, Edward, 1803-1884, former owner.
Cure, Alfred Capel, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, IV, 110.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings from New York Collections III, The 18th Century in Italy, 1971, p. 48, no. 83, repr.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings from New York Collections III, The 18th Century in Italy, 1971, p. 48, no. 83, repr.
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