Mercury Appears to Aeneas in a Dream
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 7 3/16 x 9 3/8 in. (18.2 x 23.8 cm) sheet: 9 9/16 x 7 5/16 in. (24.3 x 18.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1988
Accession Number
1988.1035
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo|Giovanni Domenico 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...