2-694-309 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Mother of the Maccabees before Antiochus', c1759, (1928). Chalk on paper. Sketch for one of the frescoes in S Maria della Purità in Udine, Italy, executed in 1759. At one time known to have been in the collection of the Kupferstichkabinett, Stuttgart, Germany. Italian Venetian painter and printmaker Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) was the son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo. Illustration from The Drawings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Volume II, by Detlev Baron Von Hadeln. [The Pegasus Press, Paris, 1928]