Design for a Ceiling (recto); Bearded Man Standing (verso)
1696–1770
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk (recto); brush and brown wash, over black chalk (verso)
Dimensions
11-7/16 x 9-13/16 in. (29.1 x 25.0 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.372
Tags
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...