Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Venice Receiving Homage from Neptune

CultureItalian
Titles
  • Venice Receiving Homage from Neptune
Date1745/1750
MediumEtching with engraving on laid paper, State II/III
DimensionsPlate: 7 1/2 × 14 1/8 in. (19.1 × 35.9 cm)
Sheet (irregular): 9 3/4 × 15 7/8 in. (24.8 × 40.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment
Object number2018.39
Non exposé

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ProvenanceEuropean art auction; private collection, USA; [Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints & Drawings, LLC], as of 2017; to the MFAH
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in ink, in plate, lower center: Joannes Bapta Tiepolo inv: et pinx / Joannes Dominicus Filius del: et fecit.

Recto: Inscribed in graphite, top right corner: 7.

No visible watermark
Catalogue raisonnéDe Vesme 97; Rizzi 1971, no. 107, State II/III, before the number 16 in the upper right corner.

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