Caricature: An Elderly Couple
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696–1770
Medium
Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown wash, over leadpoint or black chalk
Dimensions
8-1/4 x 6-1/8 in. (20.9 x 15.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1937
Accession Number
37.165.8
Tags
CouplesMenWomen
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) stands as the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe, a Venetian master whose luminous frescoes and dynamic compositions defined the Rococo era's aesthetic zenith. Born in Venice on March 5, 1696, to a modest shipping merchant family, Tiepolo's extraordinary talent transcended his humble origins to establish him as the most sought-after artis...