Bust-Length Study of a Man Wearing a Hat in Three-Quarter View (a Frankish Nobleman)
18th century
Medium
Red and white chalk, some black chalk, on gray-blue paper
Dimensions
sheet: 13 3/16 x 8 3/8 in. (33.5 x 21.2 cm) maximum; corners cut
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 2008
Accession Number
2008.178.9
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Art Historical Context
In the bustling artistic world of 18th Venice, Lorenzo Tiepolo—son of the celebrated Rococo master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo—created this captivating *Bust-Length Study of Man Wearing a Hat in-Quarter View (a Frankish Nobleman. Executed in red and white chalk with touches of black on gray-blue, the drawing measures about 13 x 8 inches, its corners slightly trimmed, suggesting it may have been salvaged or repurposed from a larger sheet. Now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it entered the collection as a generous gift from Katrin Bellinger in 2008. This...