2-694-306 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Praying Saint surrounded by Angels', 1762, (1928). 'A Saint with hands raised in prayer, standing on clouds, surrounded by Angels', chalk on paper. Detail study for the Glory of St Faustinus and St Jovita in the Church of SS Faustino and Jovita in Brescia, Italy. At one time known to have been in the collection of Dr Hans Wendland, Lugano, Switzerland. Italian Venetian painter and printmaker Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) was the son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo. Illustration from The Drawings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Volume II, by Detlev Baron Von Hadeln. [The Pegasus Press, Paris, 1928]