ID 1303408
Lot 24 | GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (1696-1770)
Estimate value
$ 7 000 – 10 000
Adoration of the Magi
etching
circa 1740
on laid paper, without watermark
a fine, delicate impression of the first state (of three), before numbers
printing sharply and with good contrasts, with light wiping marks and inky plate edges
with margins
in very good condition
Plate: 17 x 11 ½ in. (432 x 291 mm.)
Sheet: 18 ¾ x 13 1/16 in. (476 x 330 mm.)
Provenance
Thomas Graf (1878-1951), Berlin (Lugt 1092 a & b).
Kimbell Art Foundation, Fort Worth, Texas (not in Lugt); their sale, Sotheby's, New York, 13-15 May 1987, lot 67.
With Robert M. Light & Co., Inc., Santa Barbara, California; presumably acquired at the above sale.
Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection, Detroit; acquired from the above in 1989; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
De Vesme 1; Rizzi 27
Exhibited
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Master Prints of 5 Centuries: The Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection, 1990-91, p. 212, n. 199.
| Artist: | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696 - 1770) |
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| Applied technique: | Etching |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Artist: | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696 - 1770) |
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| Applied technique: | Etching |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Address of auction |
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