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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, publisher and printm
Italian, 1727 - 1804
Old Man With A Beard from Raccolta di Teste numero trenta, Libro Primo (Collection of Thirty Heads), circa 1770 - 1774
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13.1 x 10.2 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase 1975.1.133

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Artist Biography: Painter and etcher, son of Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Worked in Venice, W¸rzburg, Udina, and Madrid. Master and President of the Venetian Academy in his life time. A talented genre painter, especially of scenes from contemporary life and popular theatre. Notable among early~works are the paintings of the Stations of the Cross for S. Polo, Venice (1747-49), and the chinoiserie decorations of the guest wing of the Villa Valmarana (1757) in Vicenza. Worked in Madrid from 1762 until his father died in 1770. Returned to Venice, executed several frescoes and easel paintings, and especially scenes from the commedia dell'arte. Produced innumerable drawings for collectors, and nearly 200 etchings after his and his father's designs. Brother, Lorenzo Tiepolo (1736-76), specialized in genre scenes in pastel. ~~Reference: Rizzi, Aldo. The Etchings of the Tiepolos. London: Phaidon Press, 1971.~De Vesme, Baudi. Le Peintre-Graveur Italien. Milan, 1906~

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