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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, etcher

Venice Receiving Neptune's Homage, 1750 - 1778

Description

Maker

  • After Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770, Italian, designer
  • Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1727-1804, Italian, etcher

Title

Venice Receiving Neptune's Homage

Year

1750 - 1778

Medium

Etching on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • etching

Supports

  • Medium weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

19.4 x 36.2 cm (7 5/8 x 14 5/16 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered LC, below image: "Joannes Bap.ta Tiepolo inv: et pinx / Joannes Dominicus Filius del: et fecit"

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum Purchase: Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

53.326

About

Here an extravagantly dressed female figure accepts a cornucopia filled with coins, jewels, and coral from Neptune, god of the sea. She is an allegory of Venice, receiving gifts from maritime trade, the source of her wealth. She leans on the winged lion of Saint Mark, a symbol of Venice and a motif on its opulent cathedral, where Mark is reputedly buried.

Although Venice’s political and commercial power steadily declined in the early 1700s, literary and visual arts blossomed. The Tiepolos, among Venice’s most successful artists, continued to portray the image of opulence and spectacle favored by the city’s elite. Giovanni Domenico based this print on a painting by his father, Giovanni Battista, hanging in the Doge’s Palace.

Lettered LC, below image: "Joannes Bap.ta Tiepolo inv: et pinx / Joannes Dominicus Filius del: et fecit"

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Projects & Publications

Publications

Le peintre-graveur italien

ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch.

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Venetian Drawings and Prints of the 18th Century

January 12 - February 5, 1967

Use

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