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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Seated Youth Leaning against an Urn, 1740/1743

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series Title

Vari Capricci

Medium

etching on laid paper (proof before signature on urn)

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 13.9 x 17.9 cm (5 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Rizzi 1971, no. 29, State proof before signature on urn

Accession Number

1996.79.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

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Inscription

by later hands, lower right verso in graphite: Tiepolo / Em[?] / 4419/M / 5

Provenance

(sale, London, Christie's, 27 June 1996); purchased (via Artemis) by NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.

Exhibition History

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 12.

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.

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