Seated Youth Leaning against an Urn

1740/1743

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1696 - 1770

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate (trimmed to plate mark): 14.3 x 18.1 cm (5 5/8 x 7 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1951.16.75

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rizzi 1971, no. 29

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Anton Maria Zanetti I [1680-1757], Venice; Agostino Caironi [1820-1907], Milan (Lugt 426); (Pierre Bères, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA, 1951(Lugt 1932d); gift to NGA, 1951.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1972

  • Rare Etchings by Giovanni Battista and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1972, no. 1, repro.

1997

  • Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 11.

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

center in plate on urn: Tiepolo

Wikidata ID

Q65226338

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