A woman with her arms in chains and four other figures

Giambattista Tiepolo
Italy
1696 – 1770

A woman with her arms in chains and four other figures
from the series Capricci
c 1735-42; published 1749
etching on paper
Place made
Venice, Italy
Medium
etching on paper
Dimensions
13.6 x 17.1 cm (plate)
14.0 x 18.2 cm (sheet)
Credit line
David Murray Bequest Fund 1949
Accession number
4910G167
Signature and date
Signed in plate c.l. "Tiepolo". Not dated.
Catalogue raisonne
de Vesme 9; Rizzi (1971) 35
Media category
Print
Collection area
European prints

  • WALL LABEL: A Beautiful Line: Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi, 2012

     

    Giambattista Tiepolo was one of the most celebrated painters of the eighteenth-century. He created two highly original series of prints – the Capricci and the Scherzi di Fantasia, which have come to define the essence of Venetian printmaking.

     

    In the Capricci, Tiepolo depicted groups of figures such as soldiers, sages, women and satyrs in the outdoors, framed by architectural elements and crumbling ruins. The figures are often engaged in conversation or in a mysterious ritual.

     

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • WALL LABEL: A Beautiful Line: Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi, 2012

     

    Giambattista Tiepolo was one of the most celebrated painters of the eighteenth-century. He created two highly original series of prints – the Capricci and the Scherzi di Fantasia, which have come to define the essence of Venetian printmaking.

     

    In the Capricci, Tiepolo depicted groups of figures such as soldiers, sages, women and satyrs in the outdoors, framed by architectural elements and crumbling ruins. The figures are often engaged in conversation or in a mysterious ritual.

     

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • A beautiful line. Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 20 August 2010 – 31 October 2010
  • [Book] Zagala, Maria. A Beautiful Line : Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi.