Illustration for a Book: Troops Advancing toward a City Gate
1696–1770
Medium
Graphite or black chalk. Horizontal and vertical centering lines and another vertical line in graphite or black chalk ruled at 1 cm to the left border
Dimensions
3-3/8 x 6-3/4 in. (8.6 x 17.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.600.177
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...