Cleopatra en bedienden met sieraden en vat wijn, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1743 - 1747

Title(s)

Cleopatra en bedienden met sieraden en vat wijn

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1950-553

Catalogue reference

• De Vesme 89-1(2)
• Rizzi 104-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

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

Place

Venice

Dating

1743 - 1747

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 231 mm × width 185 mm

What

• banquet of Mark Antony and Cleopatra: she dissolves a pearl in a cup of wine, which she then drinks

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the J.W. Edwin Vom Rath Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1950

Copyright

Public domain

• The etchings of the Tiepolos : complete edition, Aldo Rizzi, Lucia Wildt, p. 234, 235, cat.nr. 104
• Le Peintre-graveur italien : ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch, p. 421, cat.nr. 89-1