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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENISE 1727-1804)
La Sainte Famille entourée d'anges durant la Fuite en Egypte
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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO (VENISE 1727-1804)
La Sainte Famille entourée d'anges durant la Fuite en Egypte
signé ‘Dom°. Tiepolo f’ (en bas à gauche)
pierre noire, plume et encre brune, filigrane croissant de lune
48,3 x 37,9 cm (19 x 15 in.)
La Sainte Famille entourée d'anges durant la Fuite en Egypte
signé ‘Dom°. Tiepolo f’ (en bas à gauche)
pierre noire, plume et encre brune, filigrane croissant de lune
48,3 x 37,9 cm (19 x 15 in.)
来源
Theodore de Wyzewa (1862-1917), Paris (L. 2471); sa vente, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21-22 février 1919, lot 251.
出版
C. Conrad, Die grossformatigen religiösen Zeichnungen Giovanni Domenico Tiepolos, Ph.D. dissertation, Heidelberg University, 1996, n° 157.
A. M. Gealt, G. Knox, Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804. A New Testament, cat. exp., New York, Frick Collection, 2006, n° 52, ill.
A. M. Gealt, G. Knox, Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804. A New Testament, cat. exp., New York, Frick Collection, 2006, n° 52, ill.
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GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO, THE HOLY FAMILY WITH ANGELS DURING THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT , BLACK CHALK, PEN AND BROWN INK, BROWN WASH, WATERMARK
Important rediscovery, the present drawing was previously known only through a black-and-white reproduction published by Adelheid M. Gealt and George Knox, in their catalogue of 313 sheets forming an extensive cycle devoted to the New Testament. Published in 2006, the corpus includes around thirty works illustrating the Flight and the Sojourn of the Holy Family in Egypt. These compositions derive from an earlier series of twenty-four etchings, issued in 1753 and commissioned by Karl Philipp von Greiffenklau, Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, when the artist was only twenty-three years old (Gealt & Knox, op. cit., 2006, p. 825). The project continues a family tradition: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo had already treated the theme as early as the 1730s.
The composition depicts a rare episode in the journey of the Holy Family, as angels bring bread and fruit to Joseph and Mary during their flight. The apparent absence of the Christ Child has been interpreted by Conrad as representing an earlier journey undertaken by his parents; however, the Virgin’s ample mantle may discreetly suggest that she enfolds the infant in a protective gesture (C. Conrad, Die grossformatigen religiösen Zeichnungen Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, unpublished, 1996, no. 24). The Flight into Egypt is only briefly recounted in the Gospel of Matthew (2:13–23), but was greatly expanded upon in apocryphal sources such as the Pseudo-Matthew and the Legenda Aurea.
Within Tiepolo’s cycle, the present sheet follows The Flight into Egypt after Castiglione, preserved at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York (inv. 147; Gealt & Knox, op. cit., 2006, no. 51), in which the Holy Family is accompanied by a shepherd and his flock. Both scenes are set in a barren, rocky landscape animated only by a few birds, swiftly sketched in pen against a clear sky. As in other works from the series such as The Holy Family Crossing the River, in a private collection in Zurich (Gealt & Knox, op. cit., 2006, no. 53), Joseph appears as a mature man with marked features, contrasting with the youthful Virgin.
Following Giovanni Domenico’s death in 1804, the entire group of drawings was dispersed. The present sheet, here in excellent condition, once belonged to the collection of Theodor de Wyzewa (1862–1917), art historian, biographer of Mozart, and translator of Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea.
Important rediscovery, the present drawing was previously known only through a black-and-white reproduction published by Adelheid M. Gealt and George Knox, in their catalogue of 313 sheets forming an extensive cycle devoted to the New Testament. Published in 2006, the corpus includes around thirty works illustrating the Flight and the Sojourn of the Holy Family in Egypt. These compositions derive from an earlier series of twenty-four etchings, issued in 1753 and commissioned by Karl Philipp von Greiffenklau, Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, when the artist was only twenty-three years old (Gealt & Knox, op. cit., 2006, p. 825). The project continues a family tradition: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo had already treated the theme as early as the 1730s.
The composition depicts a rare episode in the journey of the Holy Family, as angels bring bread and fruit to Joseph and Mary during their flight. The apparent absence of the Christ Child has been interpreted by Conrad as representing an earlier journey undertaken by his parents; however, the Virgin’s ample mantle may discreetly suggest that she enfolds the infant in a protective gesture (C. Conrad, Die grossformatigen religiösen Zeichnungen Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, unpublished, 1996, no. 24). The Flight into Egypt is only briefly recounted in the Gospel of Matthew (2:13–23), but was greatly expanded upon in apocryphal sources such as the Pseudo-Matthew and the Legenda Aurea.
Within Tiepolo’s cycle, the present sheet follows The Flight into Egypt after Castiglione, preserved at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York (inv. 147; Gealt & Knox, op. cit., 2006, no. 51), in which the Holy Family is accompanied by a shepherd and his flock. Both scenes are set in a barren, rocky landscape animated only by a few birds, swiftly sketched in pen against a clear sky. As in other works from the series such as The Holy Family Crossing the River, in a private collection in Zurich (Gealt & Knox, op. cit., 2006, no. 53), Joseph appears as a mature man with marked features, contrasting with the youthful Virgin.
Following Giovanni Domenico’s death in 1804, the entire group of drawings was dispersed. The present sheet, here in excellent condition, once belonged to the collection of Theodor de Wyzewa (1862–1917), art historian, biographer of Mozart, and translator of Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea.
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