Elephant in a Landscape
1727–1804
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink at left, right, and upper borders
Dimensions
sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 9/16 in. (18.1 x 24.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Eva B. Gebhard Gourgaud, 1959
Accession Number
60.12
Tags
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...