Three Men standing beside a Horse, from the Scherzi

Three Men standing beside a Horse, from the Scherzi by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Plate: 8 11/16 x 7 1/16 in. (22.1 x 17.9 cm) Sheet: 13 7/16 x 9 1/4 in. (34.1 x 23.5 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund; Dodge and Pfeiffer Funds; Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Gift of Bertina Suida Manning and Robert L. Manning, 1976

Accession Number

1976.537(14)

Tags

MenOwlsHorses

About the Artist

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 16961770

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...

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