Profile of an Elderly Man with a Beard, from the Raccolta di Teste (Collection of Heads) Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venice, 1727–1804)
After: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice, 1696–1770)

ca. 1757

Prints and Drawings

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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, like Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione before him, used figure studies as an opportunity to demonstrate his technical virtuosity in etching, and to engage in an artistic rivalry with other European printmakers. While he based his compositions on paintings by his father, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, the younger Tiepolo was also looking at Castiglione’s Small Studies of Heads from the previous century; he may even have owned some of Castiglione’s work. Tiepolo likely also drew inspiration from similar prints by the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Rembrandt, which were extremely popular and circulated widely in Italy during this time

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

platemark: 5 1/16 × 4 in. (12.8 × 10.2 cm)

Credit Line

The Arthur Ross Collection

Accession Number

2012.159.28.31

Geography

Made in Italy

Culture

Italian

Period

18th century

Classification

Prints

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Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
William H. Schab Gallery, New York; Arthur Ross Foundation, New York, to 2012; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

etchings

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