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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

1750s, printed after 1778

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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

1750s, printed after 1778

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.)
Portfolio/Series Plates 6 and 7 from the series "Scherzi di Fantasia"
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1938.466.4
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

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