Trionfo di Venere - Lorenzo Tiepolo
ST-3606
Triumph of Venus. Rare etching from around 1770. Measurement of the plate 66 x 50.6 cm. Printed translation of a lost canvas by Giambattista Tiepolo created for the Chinese Palace in Oranienbaum, the summer residence of the Russian Imperial Court. Sample in the third state of three, after the addition of the numbering in the upper left. Has a slight stain in the center of the engraving, otherwise in good condition. Editorial margins. Printed on laid paper with watermark. Engraved by Lorenzo Tiepolo (Venice 1736 - Madrid 1776) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Republic of Venice, son of Giambattista Tiepolo and brother of Giandomenico Tiepolo. Initiated to the profession of painter by his father, he accompanied her with his brother Giandomenico on 12 December 1750 in Würzburg, where they remained until November 1753: at the age of a boy, Lorenzo was plausibly involved with the duties of assistant in the fresco works of the princely residence . On March 31, 1762, he left with his father and brother for Madrid, arriving there on June 4. On January 8, 1770, he signed a note of the materials needed by his father to fresco the dome in the collegiate church of the Royal Palace of the Granja de S. Ildefonso and on April 3, a few days after the death of Giambattista, he sent a petition to Charles III with his brother. . While Giandomenico was asking to return home, Lorenzo offered himself to the service of the sovereign, who accepted the requests on April 24, granting him an annual salary; on 29 May Lorenzo delegated his mother and a lawyer from Madrid to Venice for the inheritance of his father's assets, of which he obtained the sixth part in August 1771. In 1773 he became a member of honor of the Venetian Academy. After a probably long illness, he died on May 2, 1776 in Húmera, a village near Madrid.
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