Currently not on view
Caricature of a Man in Slippers and Wig Seen from the Rear,
1740s or later (?)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696–1770; born Venice, Italy; died Madrid, Spain
formerly attributed to Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727–1804
formerly attributed to Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727–1804
x1948-840
Many of Tiepolo’s caricature figures have proportions gently distorted in a mode of wry humor. The artist’s sweeping pen lines define features and contours in swift strokes, with the diluted wash used economically to capture effects of light and of volume. Here, a diminutive figure in a long dressing gown is bewigged but still in his slippers, his short legs planted on turned-out feet. The view from behind is also common in caricatures, allowing for robustly undignified or wittily gauche images that deflate the public persona of the subject.
Information
Title
Caricature of a Man in Slippers and Wig Seen from the Rear
Dates
1740s or later (?)
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash
Dimensions
17.3 × 10.5 cm (6 13/16 × 4 1/8 in.)
frame: 41.3 × 33.8 × 2.9 cm (16 1/4 × 13 5/16 × 1 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895
Object Number
x1948-840
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamps in ink, on verso lower left: D.F.P. [in circle] [Lugt 750a] [and] P [in diamond shape] [Lugt 2066b]
Reference Numbers
Gibbons 650
Culture
Type
Materials
Subject
formerly attributed to Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727–1804
- Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. 1924. Catalogue of important drawings by Old Masters, mainly of the Italian schools: from the G.L. collection, sale code PAROS. 13 May 1924, London. , lot. 122
- George Knox, "Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo at Princeton", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 23, no. 1 (1964): p. 2-28., p. 8, no. 2; p. 12 (illus.)
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977).
- Bernard Aikema, Tiepolo and his circle: drawings in American collections, (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1996)., p. 198, no. 15
- Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 44, cat. no. 17; p. 45 (illus.); p. 46 (verso illus.); p. 257-258, app. no. 86; p. 258 (illus.)
