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A Magician Seated and Looking at Skulls (left); The Head of a Man on a Pile of Twigs (right)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Magician Seated and Looking at Skulls (left); The Head of a Man on a Pile of Twigs (right)

1749-1758

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Magician Seated and Looking at Skulls (left); The Head of a Man on a Pile of Twigs (right)

1749-1758

Physical Qualities Etching, Plate (each): 229 x 187 mm. (9 x 7 3/8 in.) Sheet: 390 x 548 mm. (15 3/8 x 21 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1938.466.3
DV16 and DV17 printed on the same sheet of paper
Bought from Colnaghi's, London, 1937
Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein

Inscribed: Signed, in plate, at lower left: "B. Tiepolo"; in plate, at upper right: "4"; at lower right, in graphite: "'La tete d'homme sur un bucher' / The head of a man on a pile of twigs"

Markings: WM: at center: A

Artist

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1695–1769

Italian, 1696-1770
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