Venus Entrusting Cupid to Time

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1727 - 1804

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Artist After, Venetian, 1696 - 1770

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 45.4 x 28.8 cm (17 7/8 x 11 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 52.5 x 38 cm (20 11/16 x 14 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1987.65.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rizzi 1971, no. 148

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1988

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.

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

across bottom in plate: Ioannes Bapta Tiepolo inv: et pinx. / Ioannes Dominicus Filius del: et fecit.; upper left verso in graphite: No1

Watermarks

CA (or GA, Heawood 2851)

Wikidata ID

Q74877317

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