2-694-146 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A Soldier seated', mid 18th century, (1928). 'A young soldier, seated before a tombstone, has his fortune told', pen on paper. Drawing in the style of the 'Scherzi di fantasia'. At one time known to have been in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Italian Venetian painter and printmaker Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. He was commissioned to carry out frescoes in churches and palaces, and was elected President of the Academy of Padua. As well as his large-scale majestic works, he also produced etchings and oil paintings, and is widely regarded as one of the most important artists of the period. Illustration from The Drawings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Volume I, by Detlev Baron Von Hadeln. [The Pegasus Press, Paris, 1928]