Satyr Family with Musical Instruments Sitting by a Monument, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, in or before c. 1750

Title(s)

Satyr Family with Musical Instruments Sitting by a Monument

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1950-659

Catalogue reference

• De Vesme 23-1(2)
• Rizzi 14-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• printmaker: 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 227 mm × width 177 mm

What

• satyr(s) (in general)

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, George Knox, p. 30, cat.nr. 1-1
• Narcisse Tordoir, afb. p. 58
• The etchings of the Tiepolos, Aldo Rizzi, p. 54, 55, cat.nr. 14-1
• Le Peintre-graveur italien, Alexandre de Vesme, p. 388, cat.nr. 23-1
• Jaco Rutgers, ‘The dating of Tiepolo’s Capricci and Scherzi’, Print Quarterly 23 (2006) 3, pp. 254-263