The Holy Family Passes under a City Arch

published 1753

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Associated Names
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1727 - 1804

This is a print of a group passing under an archway. The scene features a cloaked person on a donkey led by another individual with a staff, walking towards an opening showing a landscape with hills and clouds. They are on the left and have their backs to us. On the right, looking around the corner of a large wall, a group of other people stand observing the travelers. The wall and arch are detailed with brick patterns and foliage draping from the arch’s top edge. The contrast of light and shadow adds depth to the scene.

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2010

  • La Serenissima : Eighteenth-Ventury Venetian art from North American Collections, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, 2010 - 2011, no. 83, repro.

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.

Wikidata ID

Q64957032

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