River God with an Oar, Woman Holding a Serpent, and a Standing Nude Boy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1696–1770
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush with pale (yellow) and dark brown wash, over black chalk
Dimensions
10 1/16 x 9 5/16in. (25.6 x 23.7cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1937
Accession Number
37.165.30
Tags
BoysWomenSerpents
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...