Study of a Garden Sculpture: Leda?
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1727–1804
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 10 1/16 x 5 3/8 in. (25.5 x 13.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Robert Lehman, 1941
Accession Number
41.187.5
Tags
SculptureLeda
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...