Evangelist Johannes met adelaar, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (attributed to), 1700 - 1799

Title(s)

Evangelist Johannes met adelaar
Vier Evangelisten (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1950-583

Catalogue reference

• De Vesme 3-6
  Remark: foute toeschrijving
• Rizzi 239-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (attributed to)
• print maker: anonymous (attributed to)

Dating

1741 - 1745 and/or 1700 - 1799

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 166 mm × width 108 mm

What

• the apostle John the Evangelist; possible attributes: book, cauldron, chalice with snake, eagle, palm, scroll

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. 41, 42, cat.nr. 29
• The etchings of the Tiepolos : complete edition, Aldo Rizzi, Lucia Wildt, p. 436, cat.nr. 239-2
• Le Peintre-graveur italien : ouvrage faisant suite au Peintre-graveur de Bartsch, p. 392, 392, cat.nr. 3-6