Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
A Mother and Two Infants (left); The Lone Philosopher (right)
1750s, printed after 1778
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
A Mother and Two Infants (left); The Lone Philosopher (right)
1750s, printed after 1778
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.)
Portfolio/Series
Plates 20 and 21 from the series "Scherzi di Fantasia"
Credit Line
Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number
1938.466.11
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
