Punchinello Retrieving Dead Fowls from a Well

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

late 18th–early 19th century

Punchinello Retrieving Dead Fowls from a Well by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk

Dimensions

13 3/4 x 18 5/16 in. (35 x 46.5 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Accession Number

1975.1.471

Tags

WellsHuman Figures

About the Artist

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 17271804

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...

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