The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (recto) / Study of a Male Nude (verso)
c. 1726
Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk; unrelated (?) touches of red chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 43.3 × 56.2 cm (17 1/16 × 22 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
New Century Fund
Accession Number
2008.46.1
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...