Moeder met twee kinderen bij ezel en schapen, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, in or before c. 1750

Title(s)

Moeder met twee kinderen bij ezel en schapen
Scherzi di fantasia (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1950-669

Catalogue reference

• De Vesme 33-1(2)
• Rizzi 24-1(2)

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 226 mm × width 176 mm

What

• mother and baby or young child
• ass, donkey

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. 30, cat.nr. 3-1
• The etchings of the Tiepolos : complete edition, Aldo Rizzi, Lucia Wildt, p. 74, 75, cat.nr. 24-1
• Le Peintre-graveur italien : ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch, p. 391, cat.nr. 33-1
• Jaco Rutgers, ‘The dating of Tiepolo’s Capricci and Scherzi’, Print Quarterly 23 (2006) 3, pp. 254-263