Christ Leading Peter, James, and John to the High Mountain for the Transfiguration
1785/1795
Medium
pen and gray ink and pen and black ink over black chalk with a variety of gray, black, brown and golden brown washes
Dimensions
overall: 48 × 38.6 cm (18 7/8 × 15 3/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Armand Hammer Collection
Accession Number
1987.48.2
About the Artist
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1727–1804
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) was a Venetian painter, printmaker, and draftsman whose career spanned the twilight of the Rococo era. Born on August 30, 1727, in Venice as the eldest son of the celebrated Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, he worked both in his father's shadow and as a significant independent artist who developed a distinctly earthbound and humanistic vision. Domenico's importance...