Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Punchinello´s Approaching a Woman, c. 1730, 184 x 140 mm, drawing,
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Punchinello´s Approaching a Woman, c. 1730, 184 x 140 mm, drawing, pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, digital image courtesy of the Getty’s Open Content Program Tiepolo also made caricatures. Punchinellos were popular characters from street comedies in Italy. Tiepolo drew them in comical situations. Drawings like this were made not as preparations for paintings, but as independent works, that where purchased by collectors of drawings. The fluid outlines and the grey washes are characteristic of Tiepolo’s drawings. -- source link
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