Caricature
Gian Battista Tiepolo
(Venice 1696 - Madrid 1770)
- Pen, brown ink, and brown wash
- 196 x 150 mm
Giambattista collected his caricature studies in at least three or four albums; some of these belonged to Count Bernardino Comiani Algarotti, and part of these groups remained intact until the 1940s. The sheet under examination in all probability comes from one of these albums, which were subsequently dismantled, and finds precise comparisons both with the sheets preserved in the Raccolta delle Stampe “Achille Bertarelli” at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan and with those belonging to the Civici Musei in Trieste, published by Vigni.
Literature Show/Hide
G. Frizzoni, Collezione di quaranta disegni scelti dalla raccolta del senatore Giovanni
Morelli, Milano 1886, tavv. XXX-XXXI.
G. Vigni, Disegni del Tiepolo, Trieste 1972, figg. 222-248.
G. Bora, I disegni della collezione Morelli, Milano 1988, schede 89-92, pagg. 234-241.
