Sujet
'Angels playing Musical Instruments', c1755, (1928). Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
Légende
'Angels playing Musical Instruments', c1755, (1928). 'Three angels playing musical instruments', chalk on paper. Part sketch for the 'Coronation of the Virgin', ceiling painting executed in 1755 in the church of Santa Maria della Pietà in Venice, Italy. At one time known to have been in the collection of Herr FW Boehler, Lucerne, Switzerland. Italian Venetian painter and printmaker Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. He was commissioned to carry out frescoes in churches and palaces, and was elected President of the Academy of Padua. As well as his large-scale majestic works, he also produced etchings and oil paintings, and is widely regarded as one of the most important artists of the period. Illustration from The Drawings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Volume II, by Detlev Baron Von Hadeln. [The Pegasus Press, Paris, 1928]
The Print Collector collection
Date
1928
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19D47_271
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
70,5Mo (8,8Mo) / 50,8cm x 34,7cm / 6001 x 4104 (300dpi)