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Attributed to Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Head of a Boy, before 1780

Description

Maker

  • Attributed to Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804, Italian

Title

Head of a Boy

Year

before 1780

Medium

Red and white chalks on blue laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • chalk

Supports

  • laid paper

Dimensions

24.8 x 18.6 cm (9 3/4 x 7 5/16 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

73.078

Projects & Publications

Publications

Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

From Dürer to Van Gogh

June 5 - October 26, 2008

Drawing was an essential part of the artistic practice of Venice’s leading 18th-century painters, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and his son Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. Both kept albums of drawings bound by theme or subject, which were retained in the family studio as a repertoire that could be used in later commissions. This sheet may be grouped with a number of chalk head studies of the same young man by the elder Tiepolo, although the handling of the chalk and emphasis on surface is more closely related to his son’s approach to drawing.

Old Master Drawings

September 2 - October 16, 1983

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