Two Women with Two Soldiers, One Seated, from the Capricci

Two Women with Two Soldiers, One Seated, from the Capricci

Artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venetian, 1696 - 1770)

Date1743/1785

MediumEtching

DimensionsPlatemark: 5 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. (13 x 18.1 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Robert Getscher from the Getscher-Wilkinson Collection

CultureItalian

PortfolioVari Capricci

Catalogue raisonnéRizzi 31

Object numberPC2014.14.16

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionTwo women surround a soldier seated on a garden's low stone wall. The soldier looks away from them and towards the ground, downcast and forlorn. The second soldier is slightly hidden; his armor and feathered helmet peak out from behind the seated solder's face and torso.

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