Study of a Draped Figure
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
c. 1750
Medium
red chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 24.2 × 16.3 cm (9 1/2 × 6 7/16 in.) mount: 28.3 × 20.6 cm (11 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of Andrea Woodner
Accession Number
2018.76.1
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...