An Audience with Death, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, in or before c. 1735

Title(s)

An Audience with Death
Death Holding Forth to a Group of People and a Dog

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-12.248

Catalogue reference

• De Vesme 10
• Rizzi 36

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. 1735

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 141 mm × width 176 mm

What

• dog
• personifications of Death; 'Morte' (Ripa)

Acquisition

unknown

Copyright

Public domain

• The etchings of the Tiepolos : complete edition, Aldo Rizzi, Lucia Wildt, p. 98, 99, cat.nr. 36
• Le Peintre-graveur italien : ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch, p. 384, cat.nr. 10
• Narcisse Tordoir : The pink spy, Bart De Baere, afb. p. 120
• Jaco Rutgers, ‘The dating of Tiepolo’s Capricci and Scherzi’, Print Quarterly 23 (2006) 3, pp. 254-263