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A Mother and Two Infants (left); The Lone Philosopher (right)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Mother and Two Infants (left); The Lone Philosopher (right)

1749-1758

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Mother and Two Infants (left); The Lone Philosopher (right)

1749-1758

Physical Qualities Etching, Plate (each): 232 x 175 mm. (9 1/8 x 6 7/8 in.) Sheet: 389 x 547 mm. (15 5/16 x 21 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1938.466.11
DV32 and DV33 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, in plate, at lower right: "G.B.Tiepolo"; in plate, at upper right: "20"; at lower right, in graphite: "The lone philosopher / Le philosophe seul"

Markings: WM: at center: 3 stars / FV

Artist

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1695–1769

Italian, 1696-1770
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