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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 in red-brown on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 13.9 x 18 cm (5 1/2 x 7 1/16 in.)

sheet: 21.8 x 26.3 cm (8 9/16 x 10 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Rizzi 1971, no. 29, State (proof)

Accession Number

1997.47.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

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Inscription

center in plate on urn: Tiepolo

Provenance

(Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Rumbler, Helmut H., Mr.

Exhibition History

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 13.

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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