1752
graphite
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Sketch for the Flight into Egypt [verso] is a 1752 graphite by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
The image shows a piece of paper with faint pencil marks on it. The paper is light beige with darker spots and stains. There are some scribbled lines and shapes, but they don't form a clear picture. In the bottom-right corner, there are some numbers and letters written in pencil. The paper looks old and worn out, with some tears and creases. The pencil marks are light and hard to see, but they seem to be some kind of sketch or drawing. The numbers and letters in the corner might be a signature or a date, but they're not clear. This piece of paper might be a sketch for a bigger painting, but it's hard to tell. To learn more about this kind of artwork, you could look up the artist Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico.
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (August 30, 1727 – March 3, 1804) was an Italian painter and printmaker in etching. He was the son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo.
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