Sheet of Studies: Five Angels (recto); Youth in Clerical Robes and Other Studies (verso)
1696–1770
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash (recto), pen and brown and black ink (verso)
Dimensions
8-11/16 x 8-5/8 in. (22.1 x 21.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.363
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...