TIEPOLO, Giovanni Domenico
(b. 1727, Venezia, d. 1804, Venezia)

Carnival Scene (The Minuet)

1754-55
Oil on canvas, 81 x 105 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Giandomenico Tiepolo, son of Giambattista, was his pupil and collaborator, but gradually asserted his personal vein in genre painting with anecdotal and picturesque scenes derived from the seventeenth-century Dutch manner. He describes popular venetian festivities (serenades, carnivals, commedia dell'arte), not devoid of caricature. This painting is one of his first endeavours in that field.