Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804)
The Gathering of Manna
signed 'D** Tiepolo' (lower centre)
pencil, brown pen, ink and wash on paper
27.2 x 38.2cm (10 11/16 x 15 1/16in).
Footnotes:
Provenance
Private Collection, USA

The present drawing relates to the upper left section of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's altarpiece from 1740-42, in the Church of San Lorenzo, Verolanuova (oil on canvas, 1 x 5.25m).

In this drawing Tiepolo uses to great effect the technique employed before him by his father, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, of fluent pen outlines infilled with brown wash to give form, and accents of strong highlights created by leaving areas of bare paper.
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The sheet has been hinged to the mount and is slightly cockled. There are fine
lines and tiny puncture holes running vertically through the sheet through Moses's proper left arm which suggest the sheet was sewn into a book before use, and there is the faint sign of a horizontal fold running across the sheet half way down. There is some surface dirt and brown lines on the left and lower edge caused by acid from an old mount, in addition to which there is extensive foxing visible in the photograph. There is a hole with a small loss in the two upper corners.