Venus and Cupid Discovering the Body of Adonis
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
c. 1740
Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 40.8 x 28.5 cm (16 1/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner
Accession Number
2006.11.64
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...