Young Shepherdess and old man with a Monkey, from the Scherzi
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
ca. 1740
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 8 7/8 x 7 in. (22.5 x 17.8 cm) Sheet: 13 7/16 x 9 1/4 in. (34.1 x 23.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1921
Accession Number
21.84.2
Tags
MenWomenBullsMonkeys
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...