Seated Woman and Standing Man Surrounded by Other Figures and Paraphernalia
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1651 to 1700
Medium
etching, with pen and brown ink added to tree trunk behind foremost seated woman
Dimensions
plate: 22.2 x 17.5 cm (8 3/4 x 6 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1951.16.95
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...