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A Woman Seated, Talking to a Man (left); A Serpent Burning on an Altar (right)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Woman Seated, Talking to a Man (left); A Serpent Burning on an Altar (right)

1749-1758

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A Woman Seated, Talking to a Man (left); A Serpent Burning on an Altar (right)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Woman Seated, Talking to a Man (left); A Serpent Burning on an Altar (right)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Woman Seated, Talking to a Man (left); A Serpent Burning on an Altar (right)

1749-1758

Physical Qualities Etching, Plate (each): 229 x 181 mm. (9 x 7 1/8 in.) Sheet: 389 x 547 mm. (15 5/16 x 21 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1938.466.2
DV14 and DV15 printed on the same sheet of paper
Bought from Colnaghi's, London, 1937
Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein

Inscribed: Signed, in plate, at lower right: "B.To" monogram; in plate, at upper right: "2" at lower right, in graphite: "Le serpent brulant sur un autel / A serpent burning on an altar"

Markings: WM: at center, letter A

Artist

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1695–1769

Italian, 1696-1770
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FIVE POLICHINELLE
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1750
LANDSCAPE, WITH WOMAN SEATED ALONG RIVERBANK
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Landscape, with Woman Seated along Riverbank
1769–1779
RINALDO ENCHANTED BY ARMIDA
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Armida Falls in Love with Rinaldo
1744–1754
WOMAN SEATED AT A BRIDGE IN RUINS
Maxime Lalanne and Veuve A. Cadart
Woman Seated at a Bridge in Ruins
1865
THE ANGEL APPEARING TO SAINT PASCHAL BAYLON
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The Angel Appearing to Saint Paschal Baylon
1769
SEATED NUDE WOMAN
Reuben R. Kramer
Seated Nude Woman
1949
A PHILOSOPHER WITH A BOOK
Lorenzo (Baldissera) Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
A Philosopher with a Book
1748–1758
SEATED NUDE WOMAN
Matsumi Kanemitsu
Seated Nude Woman
1950
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
MAN AND WOMAN SEATED AT A TABLE
Andrew Geddes
Man and Woman Seated at a Table
1802–1843