Two Rampaging Elephants
1790/1792
Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk and charcoal on white laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 36.7 × 50.3 cm (14 7/16 × 19 13/16 in.) image: 29 x 42 cm (11 7/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2007.111.172
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...