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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Discovery of the Tomb of Punchinello, early 1750s

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series Title

Scherzi [Rizzi 4-26]

Medium

etching on laid paper tinted with yellow-green watercolor

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 23.5 x 18.3 cm (9 1/4 x 7 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Christopher Mendez, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Rizzi 1971, no. 20, State i/ii

Accession Number

1991.104.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (artist) Venetian, 1696 - 1770

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Inscription

lower right in plate: B. Tiepolo

Exhibition History

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 30.

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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