2-694-305 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Angel with Monstrance', c1767, (1928). Chalk on paper. 'Part study for the San Pasqual de Baylon, painted 1767-1769, for the high altar of the Monastery Church of Aranjuez which was never erected, only the upper part of the knee-length figure of an angel is in the Prado in Madrid'. At one time known to have been in the collection of Henry Oppenheimer, London. Italian Venetian painter and printmaker Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. He was commissioned to carry out frescoes in churches and palaces, and was elected President of the Academy of Padua. As well as his large-scale majestic works, he also produced etchings and oil paintings, and is widely regarded as one of the most important artists of the period. Illustration from The Drawings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Volume II, by Detlev Baron Von Hadeln. [The Pegasus Press, Paris, 1928]