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

1750s, printed after 1778

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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)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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

1750s, printed after 1778

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.)
Portfolio/Series Plates 4 and 5 from the series "Scherzi di Fantasia"
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1938.466.3
Bought from Colnaghi's, London, 1937
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.

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

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