Evangelist Marcus met leeuw, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (attributed to), after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1700 - 1799

Title(s)

Evangelist Marcus met leeuw
Vier Evangelisten (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1950-580

Catalogue reference

• De Vesme 3-6
  Remark: foute toeschrijving
• Rizzi 237

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (attributed to)
• after painting by: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (mentioned on object)
• print maker: anonymous (attributed to)

Place

Italy

Dating

1741 - 1745 and/or 1700 - 1799

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 168 mm × width 110 mm

What

• Mark (Marcus) the evangelist, and bishop of Alexandria; possible attributes: book, (winged) lion, pen and inkhorn, scroll

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the J.W. Edwin Vom Rath Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1950

Copyright

Public domain

• Etchings by the Tiepolos : Domenico Tiepolo's collection of the family etchings from an album in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York, Jean Sutherland Boggs, Elaine Evans Dee, George Knox, p. 41, 42, cat.nr. 27
• The etchings of the Tiepolos : complete edition, Aldo Rizzi, Lucia Wildt, p. 436, 437 met afbeelding, cat.nr. 237
• Le Peintre-graveur italien : ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch, p. 392, 393, cat.nr. 3-6