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Two Magicians in Foreground with Infant (left); Six Persons Looking at a Serpent (right)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Two Magicians in Foreground with Infant (left); Six Persons Looking at a Serpent (right)

1749-1758

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Two Magicians in Foreground with Infant (left); Six Persons Looking at a Serpent (right)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Two Magicians in Foreground with Infant (left); Six Persons Looking at a Serpent (right)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Two Magicians in Foreground with Infant (left); Six Persons Looking at a Serpent (right)

1749-1758

Physical Qualities Etching, Plate (each): 229 x 178 mm. (9 x 7 in.) Sheet: 390 x 546 mm. (15 3/8 x 21 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1938.466.7
DV24 and DV25 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 left: "Tiepolo" [reverse]; in plate, at upper right: "12"; at lower right, in graphite: "'Six personnes debout regardant un serpent' / Six persons looking at a snake"

Markings: WM: at center: 3 stars / FV

Artist

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1695–1769

Italian, 1696-1770
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VENUS ENTRUSTING AN INFANT TO TIME
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Venus Entrusting an Infant to Time
1752–1762
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
FIVE POLICHINELLE
Georg Friedrich Schmidt and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Five Polichinelle
1750
MARINE WITH TWO-MASTED VESSEL IN FOREGROUND
James Simpson
Marine with Two-Masted Vessel in Foreground
1878
RINALDO ENCHANTED BY ARMIDA
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Armida Falls in Love with Rinaldo
1744–1754
LANDSCAPE WITH TWO MEN AND TWO DOGS IN FOREGROUND
John Wood and Gaspard Dughet
Landscape with Two Men and Two Dogs in Foreground
1742
THE ANGEL APPEARING TO SAINT PASCHAL BAYLON
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
The Angel Appearing to Saint Paschal Baylon
1769
LANDSCAPE WITH TWO MEN CONVERSING IN FOREGROUND
John Wood and Gaspard Dughet
Landscape with Two Men Conversing in Foreground
1743
A PHILOSOPHER WITH A BOOK
Lorenzo (Baldissera) Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
A Philosopher with a Book
1748–1758
GARDEN SCENE, WITH SUITOR AND TWO YOUNG WOMEN IN FOREGROUND
James Johnson and François de Troy
Garden Scene, with Suitor and Two Young Women in Foreground
1744–1754
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
SIX BUTTERFLIES AND TWO SMALL INSECTS
Wenceslaus Hollar
Six Butterflies and Two Small Insects
1645