Profile of an Old Man with a Beard

c. 1756/1757

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1727 - 1804

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 12.7 × 10 cm (5 × 3 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 17 × 13.5 cm (6 11/16 × 5 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1975.68.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rizzi 1971, no. 213, State i/ii


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

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.

2021

  • Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 53, fig. 6.

Wikidata ID

Q65568998


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