Swann Galleries - Old Master Prints - Sale 2429: Part I, November 3, 2016

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204 ● GIOVANNI B. TIEPOLO
Tre soldati e un ragazzo.
Etching, before 1749. 142x178 mm; 55/8 x7
inches, thread margins. From Vari Capricci .
A superb, dark impression with very strong
contrasts. DeVesme 4; Rizzi 30.
[1,500/2,500]
205 ● GIOVANNI D. TIEPOLO
LaVergine col Bambino, S. Francesco da Paola e
S.Antonio da Padova .
Etching, circa 1780. 202x117 mm; 8x43/4
inches, wide margins. First state (of 2). A
superb, well-inked impression with crisp
plate marks and with a decorative border
outside the plate mark in pen and brown ink.
Based on an altar painting byTiepolo’s father,
Giovanni B. Tiepolo, from the 1750s-60s,
now in the Bearsted collection,Warwickshire.
DeVesme 56; Rizzi 127.
[1,500/2,500]
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