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Caricature of a Person in a Voluminous Gown, Seen from Behind
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Caricature of a Person in a Voluminous Gown, Seen from Behind

Medium

Pen and black ink, gray wash

Dimensions

6 7/8 x 4 in. (17.4 x 10.2 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Classification

Drawings

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Rights

Public Domain

About Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1696–1770Republic of Venice

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 artist among European nobility and ecclesiastical patrons.