The Baptism of Christ

One of an extensive series of drawings of the same subject, thirteen versions of which were included in the Beauchamp sale (lots 6-18). Further examples of the theme are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (K.T. Parker, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1956, II, no. 1089) and in the Robert Lehman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, which possesses six drawings from the group (J. Byam Shaw and G. Knox, Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection, New York, 1987, nos. 114-119; here there is a further discussion of drawings from the series in other collections). The drawings are related to a picture of the same subject in the Museo Stibbert in Florence (A. Mariuz, Giandomenico Tiepolo, Venice, 1971, p. 119, pl. 305).