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The Back View of a Satyr and his Family (left); The Joyous Satyr and his Family (right)
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Back View of a Satyr and his Family (left); The Joyous Satyr and his Family (right)

1750s, printed after 1778

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Back View of a Satyr and his Family (left); The Joyous Satyr and his Family (right)

1750s, printed after 1778

Physical Qualities Etching, Plate (each): 229 x 179 mm. (9 x 7 1/16 in.) Sheet: 390 x 548 mm. (15 3/8 x 21 9/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series Plates 10 and 11 from the series "Scherzi di Fantasia"
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1938.466.6
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: "Tiepolo" [reversed]; in plate, at upper right: "10" at lower right, in graphite: "'Le Satyr joyeux et sa famille' / The joyous satyr and his family"

Markings: WM: at center: 3 stars / FV

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