Artist Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727-1804
Artist after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1696-1770
Title
  • The Patron Saints of the Crotta Family
Date between mid-18th and early 19th century
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 10 3/8 × 14 3/4 inches (26.4 × 37.5 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund
Accession Number 58.221
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, below image: Procerum ex Familia Crotta Sanctorum Icones, | Quas Pater pinxit, obsequi:.mo animo Filius incidens | EXCEL.MO N.I VIRO D:D:IO.I ANTO.IO CROTTA Q:D:ALEXN . [~ above XN] | D:D:D:
Inscribed, lower left: IOS: Dom. Tiepolo Ios. Bapta. Filius.
Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [minor notations]
1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)