Turkish Lancer and Onlookers Approaching a Town
1760–70
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and pale brown wash, over black chalk; framing outlines by the artist in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
Frame: 18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm) Sheet: 11 1/4 x 16 3/16 in. (28.5 x 41.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1937
Accession Number
37.165.67
Tags
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...