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A Magician Seated with Four Persons Behind Him
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Magician Seated with Four Persons Behind Him

1749-1758

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A Magician Seated with Four Persons Behind Him

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Magician Seated with Four Persons Behind Him

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Magician Seated with Four Persons Behind Him

1749-1758

Physical Qualities Etching, Plate (each): 225 x 181 mm. (8 7/8 x 7 1/8 in.) Sheet: 392 x 548 mm. (15 7/16 x 21 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1938.466.4
DV18 and DV19 printed on the same sheet of paper
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, at lower left, in plate: "G.B.Tiepolo"; in plate, at upper right: "6"; at lower right, in graphite: "'Le magicien assis et les quatre personnes debout' / A magician seated with four persons behind him"

Markings: WM: at center: 3 stars / FV

Artist

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1695–1769

Italian, 1696-1770
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VENUS ENTRUSTING AN INFANT TO TIME
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Venus Entrusting an Infant to Time
1752–1762
MAN SEATED, WITH FIGURE BEHIND HIM POINTING TO THE LEFT
Johann Georg Wille
Man Seated, with Figure Behind him Pointing to the Left
1700–1799
FIVE POLICHINELLE
Georg Friedrich Schmidt and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Five Polichinelle
1750
FOUR FIGURES SEATED ON BENCHES
Aaron Sopher
Four Figures Seated on Benches
1924–1956
RINALDO ENCHANTED BY ARMIDA
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Armida Falls in Love with Rinaldo
1744–1754
Landscape: Figure Seated on a Rock beneath a Gnarled Tree with a Fortification Tower behind
Francisque Saint-Etienne
Landscape: Figure Seated on a Rock beneath a Gnarled Tree with a Fortification Tower behind
1843–1884
THE ANGEL APPEARING TO SAINT PASCHAL BAYLON
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
The Angel Appearing to Saint Paschal Baylon
1769
SEATED WOMAN SURROUNDED BY FOUR FIGURES
Frédéric Laguillermie
Seated Woman Surrounded by Four Figures
1880
A PHILOSOPHER WITH A BOOK
Lorenzo (Baldissera) Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
A Philosopher with a Book
1748–1758
BACCHANT, SATYR AND FAUNESS (LEFT); TWO MAGICIANS, ONE SEATED, AND A BOY (RIGHT); ST. JOSEPH WITH THE INFANT JESUS IN HIS ARMS (LOWER)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Bacchant, Satyr and Fauness (left); Two Magicians, One Seated, and a Boy (right); St. Joseph with the Infant Jesus in his Arms (lower)
1749–1758
TWO MAGICIANS IN FOREGROUND WITH INFANT (LEFT); SIX PERSONS LOOKING AT A SERPENT (RIGHT)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Two Magicians in Foreground with Infant (left); Six Persons Looking at a Serpent (right)
1749–1758