Filosoof met opengeslagen boek en passer, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, in or before c. 1750

Title(s)

Filosoof met opengeslagen boek en passer
Scherzi di fantasia (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1950-668

Catalogue reference

• De Vesme 32-2(3)
• Rizzi 23-2(3)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

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

Place

Italy

Dating

in or before c. 1750

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 229 mm × width 171 mm

What

• scholar, philosopher
• compasses

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. 34, cat.nr. 15-1
• The etchings of the Tiepolos : complete edition, Aldo Rizzi, Lucia Wildt, p. 72, 73, cat.nr. 23-2
• Le Peintre-graveur italien : ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch, p. 391, cat.nr. 32-2
• Jaco Rutgers, ‘The dating of Tiepolo’s Capricci and Scherzi’, Print Quarterly 23 (2006) 3, pp. 254-263