Sketches of Male Heads (recto); Queen and Page (verso)
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash (recto) and red chalk with brush and red chalk wash; pen and brown ink, with traces of black chalk (verso) on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
15.7 × 28.5 cm (6 3/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112727
About the Artist
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1727–1804
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...