Sheet of Studies: Five Angels (recto); Youth in Clerical Robes and Other Studies (verso)
1696–1770
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash (recto), pen and brown and black ink (verso)
Dimensions
8-11/16 x 8-5/8 in. (22.1 x 21.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.363
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) stands as the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe, a Venetian master whose luminous frescoes and dynamic compositions defined the Rococo era's aesthetic zenith. Born in Venice on March 5, 1696, to a modest shipping merchant family, Tiepolo's extraordinary talent transcended his humble origins to establish him as the most sought-after artis...