Two Monks with a Prostrate Man

c. 1725

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Associated Names
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1696 - 1770

The image shows three figures. One figure stands in the center, pointing with one hand. Another figure sits to the right, and a third figure lies on the ground to the left. The background is sketchy.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash and added gray wash over black chalk on laid paper, laid down

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 43.9 x 34.3 cm (17 5/16 x 13 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.3.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jules Dupan, Geneva, mid 19th century (Lugt 1440). (Adolphe Stein, London, 1988); Ian Woodner Family Collection, New York, 1988 - 2001; gift to NGA, 2001.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1988

  • Master Drawings Presented by Adolphe Stein. Douwes Fine Art Gallery, London, 1988, no. 70, pl. 1 (as Scene from the Old Testament--Three Prophets?)(color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in brown ink: No 1106

Wikidata ID

Q64572382

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