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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Angelica staunching the wounds of Medoro
pen and two shades of gray ink, gray wash.
Signed in brown ink Dom Tiepolo f;
One of several studies on the theme of Angelica and Medoro, from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso inspired by Giovanni Battista’s frescoes Villa Valmarana, near Vicenza.
Provenance: possibly Francesco Guardi
Horace Walpole The Rt Hon the Earl of Beauchamp DLJP
his sale Christies, London June 15, 1965 lot 131.
258 x 176mm;10 1/8 x 6 15/16in.