DrawingsItalian18th century

Profile Head of a Laughing Satyr

18th century

Artists

Giovanni Battista TiepoloArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash over black chalk on white antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

24.6 × 19.9 cm (9 11/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Canova. Edward Cheney. Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939

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