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

Virgin and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist

1770s
Oil on canvas, 89 x 70 cm
Private collection

From 1750 to 1770 Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo was both his father's assistant and associate, as well as an independent artist. He quickly became an extremely proficient draughtsman and printmaker, depicting a variety of subjects, religious and profane, in fresco and on canvas. However, he avoided his father's grandiloquence and instead favoured creating more intimate, tender scenes such as the present canvas.




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