Aanbidding van Christuskind door drie koningen, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, in or before c. 1775

Title(s)

Aanbidding van Christuskind door drie koningen
Scherzi di fantasia (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

25/25

Object number

RP-P-1950-647

Catalogue reference

• De Vesme 1-3(4)
• Rizzi 27-3(3)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (mentioned on object)
• after own design by: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
• publisher: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Place

Venice

Dating

in or before c. 1750 and/or in or before c. 1775

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 429 mm × width 289 mm

What

• adoration of the kings: the Wise Men present their gifts to the Christ-child (gold, frankincense and myrrh)

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. 40, cat.nr. 23
• The etchings of the Tiepolos : complete edition, Aldo Rizzi, Lucia Wildt, p. 80, 81, cat.nr. 27-3
• Le Peintre-graveur italien : ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch, p. 381, 382, cat.nr. 1-3
• Jaco Rutgers, ‘The dating of Tiepolo’s Capricci and Scherzi’, Print Quarterly 23 (2006) 3, pp. 254-263