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A Magician Seated and Looking at Skulls (left); The Head of a Man on a Pile of Twigs (right)
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Magician Seated and Looking at Skulls (left); The Head of a Man on a Pile of Twigs (right)

1749-1758

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A Magician Seated and Looking at Skulls (left); The Head of a Man on a Pile of Twigs (right)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Magician Seated and Looking at Skulls (left); The Head of a Man on a Pile of Twigs (right)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

A Magician Seated and Looking at Skulls (left); The Head of a Man on a Pile of Twigs (right)

1749-1758

Physical Qualities Etching, Plate (each): 229 x 187 mm. (9 x 7 3/8 in.) Sheet: 390 x 548 mm. (15 3/8 x 21 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Blanche Adler
Object Number 1938.466.3
DV16 and DV17 printed on the same sheet of paper
Bought from Colnaghi's, London, 1937
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.

Inscribed: Signed, in plate, at lower left: "B. Tiepolo"; in plate, at upper right: "4"; at lower right, in graphite: "'La tete d'homme sur un bucher' / The head of a man on a pile of twigs"

Markings: WM: at center: A

Artist

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1695–1769

Italian, 1696-1770
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VENUS ENTRUSTING AN INFANT TO TIME
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Venus Entrusting an Infant to Time
1752–1762
Title Vignette (Head of woman looking up).
John Cheney
Title Vignette (Head of woman looking up).
1820–1884
FIVE POLICHINELLE
Georg Friedrich Schmidt and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Five Polichinelle
1750
Head of an Old Man Looking Down
Johannes Adriaanszoon Bemme
Head of an Old Man Looking Down
1803
RINALDO ENCHANTED BY ARMIDA
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Armida Falls in Love with Rinaldo
1744–1754
SHEET OF FIVE SKETCHES: HEAD OF A MAN; BOY FROM THE BACK; SEATED ARAB; WOMAN; BEGGAR
Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet
Sheet of five sketches: head of a man; boy from the back; seated arab; woman; beggar
1811–1844
THE ANGEL APPEARING TO SAINT PASCHAL BAYLON
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
The Angel Appearing to Saint Paschal Baylon
1769
SHEET OF STUDIES: MAN ON HORSEBACK, SEATED GIRL, HORSE'S HEAD ETC.
Eugène Lepoittevin, Lemercier, and others
Sheet of Studies: Man on Horseback, Seated Girl, Horse's Head etc.
1825–1869
A PHILOSOPHER WITH A BOOK
Lorenzo (Baldissera) Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
A Philosopher with a Book
1748–1758
SHEET OF STUDIES: MAN ON HORSEBACK, SEATED GIRL, HORSE'S HEAD ETC.
Eugène Lepoittevin, Lemercier, and others
Sheet of Studies: Man on Horseback, Seated Girl, Horse's Head etc.
1825–1869
BACCHANT, SATYR AND FAUNESS (LEFT); TWO MAGICIANS, ONE SEATED, AND A BOY (RIGHT); ST. JOSEPH WITH THE INFANT JESUS IN HIS ARMS (LOWER)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Bacchant, Satyr and Fauness (left); Two Magicians, One Seated, and a Boy (right); St. Joseph with the Infant Jesus in his Arms (lower)
1749–1758