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

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

1750s, printed after 1778

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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)

1750s, printed after 1778

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.)
Portfolio/Series Plates 12 and 13 from the series "Scherzi di Fantasia"
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1938.466.7
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

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FIVE POLICHINELLE
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1751
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Marine with Two-Masted Vessel in Foreground
1879
RINALDO ENCHANTED BY ARMIDA
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LANDSCAPE WITH TWO MEN AND TWO DOGS IN FOREGROUND
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Landscape with Two Men and Two Dogs in Foreground
1743
THE ANGEL APPEARING TO SAINT PASCHAL BAYLON
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The Angel Appearing to Saint Paschal Baylon
1770
LANDSCAPE WITH TWO MEN CONVERSING IN FOREGROUND
John Wood and Gaspard Dughet
Landscape with Two Men Conversing in Foreground
1744
A PHILOSOPHER WITH A BOOK
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A Philosopher with a Book
c. 1754-1757
GARDEN SCENE, WITH SUITOR AND TWO YOUNG WOMEN IN FOREGROUND
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c. 1750
A MOTHER AND TWO INFANTS (LEFT); THE LONE PHILOSOPHER (RIGHT)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
A Mother and Two Infants (left); The Lone Philosopher (right)
1750s, printed after 1778
SIX BUTTERFLIES AND TWO SMALL INSECTS
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Six Butterflies and Two Small Insects
1646