Holy Family escorted by an angel

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Italy
1727 – 1804

Holy Family escorted by an angel
plate 12 from the series Flight into Egypt
c 1750-53
etching on paper
Place made
Venice, Italy
Medium
etching on paper
Dimensions
18.6 x 24.7 cm (plate)
19.5 x 25.3 cm (sheet)
Credit line
V.B.F. Young Bequest Fund 2009
Accession number
20096G57
Signature and date
Signed in plate, l.r., "Do: Tiepolo in: et fec.". Not dated.
Catalogue raisonne
De Vesme 12; Rizzi (1971) 78, unrecorded state without the number
Media category
Print
Collection area
European prints

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

     

    This print belongs to Domenico’s original series of twenty-four etchings ‘Picturesque Ideas on the Theme of the Flight into Egypt’. In the series Domenico depicts the  journey of Joseph, Mary and the infant Christ Child to Egypt as told in the New Testament. Domenico describes the Holy Family, who are accompanied by a magnificent angel, with a lively, wiry line. Domenico also included huddled men in turbans in the scene, whose appearance is similar to those in his father Giambattista’s Scherzi di Fantasia.

     

    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] de Vesme, Alexandre. Le Peintre-Graveur Italien.
  • [Book] Rizzi, Aldo. The Etchings of the Tiepolo's.
  • [Book] Knox, George. Etchings by the Tiepolos.
  • [Book] Russell, D. Rare etchings by the Tiepolos.
  • [Book] Zagala, Maria. A Beautiful Line : Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi.