Head of a Moor Bending Forward

1770

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1727 - 1804

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 14.4 x 11.5 cm (5 11/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 17.6 x 14 cm (6 15/16 x 5 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.109.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rizzi 1971, no. 180, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Christopher Mendez, London); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in graphite: DeV 136 I S. 141; by later hand, lower right in graphite: ex c. 27364

Wikidata ID

Q76341614

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