Two Rampaging Elephants
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1790/1792 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk and charcoal on white laid paper
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About this picture
Two Rampaging Elephants is a public-domain drawing by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, dated 1790/1792. Pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk and charcoal on white laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Two Rampaging Elephants” (1790/1792) comes out of the Tiepolo workshop, from the son rather than the father. Many of these sheets are drawings of Punchinello or studies for ceilings.
About the artist
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804) was the son of Giambattista Tiepolo and worked in the family studio. Later he drew a long series of Punchinello scenes, commedia figures in ordinary trouble.
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