GIOVANNI DOMENICO TIEPOLO
Venice 1727–1804 Venice
The Holy Family Entering Memphis
Signed in pen and brown ink, lower left, Domo Tiepolo f, and inscribed in graphite with the number, 14; also, inscribed in a later hand, verso, Arrivée à jérusalem
Pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk
19 x 14 ⅞ inches
482 x 379 mm
Provenance
Victor Luzarche (1803–1869), Tours, by c. 1833
Roger Cormier, Tours (his sale: Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 30 April 1921, lot 48 (La Fuite en Egypte: la Sainte Famille franchissant la porte d’une ville)
Private collection, Paris (their sale: Collection de M. X…, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Salle 6, 30 May 1968, lot 56, pl. IX
Wildenstein & Co., New York, from whom acquired before 1981 by
George S. Heyer, Jr. (1930–2015), Austin, Texas
Thence by descent
Exhibitions
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1981 (on temporary loan, inv. LN 81.18)
Literature
C. Conrad, Die grossformatigen religiösen Zeichnungen Giovanni Domenico Tiepolos, Ph.D. dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 1996, I, cat. no. 60, illustrated
A. M. Gealt and G. Knox, Domenico Tiepolo, A New Testament, Bloomington, Indiana University, 2006, pp. 216-17, cat. no. 72, illustrated
PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK