Travel Pick: Art and Archaeology in United States Tiepolo Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection
Tiepolo Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection UNITED STATES NEW YORK • Metropolitan Museum of Art • 20 May - 17 August 2008
Some 60 drawings by the brilliant Venetian master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696 - 1770) and his son and valued assistant Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727 - 1804) are on view in the court level of the newly renovated Robert Lehman Wing. The selection highlights the different aspects of the two artist's graphic production, from the preparatory studies of figures or animals to narrative drawings conceived as finished works of art.