The Holy Family Descending a Path near Shepherds

1752/1753

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1727 - 1804

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper [working proof]

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (cut within platemark): 18 x 24.2 cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.28.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rizzi 1971, no. 87, State undescribed proof


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified collector, Bologna (stamp not deciphered: am? cm? not in Lugt). (Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2005 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

lower center in plate: Go Tiepolo fecit 1753(?)

Wikidata ID

Q76341620


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