Old Man with an Open Book
1770
Artist, Venetian, 1727 - 1804
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 14.1 x 10.7 cm (5 9/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
sheet: 17.2 x 13.7 cm (6 3/4 x 5 3/8 in.) -
Accession
2000.7.38
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rizzi 1971, no. 175
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel, Washington D.C.; gift to NGA, 2000.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2000
Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.
2012
The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012
Bibliography
1906
Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906.
1971
Rizzi, Aldo. The Etchings of the Tiepolos. Complete edition. London: Phaidon, 1971.
Wikidata ID
Q75425947