Perhaps Cathedral ceiling design, engraved by acknowledged printmaker Master Joseph Wagner, ca 51 x 50 cm cut, signed: G. Batta Tiepolo pinx Appo. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. Successful from the beginning of his career, he has been described by Michael Levey as the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe, as well as its most able craftsman. (see great article in Wikipedia). Joseph Wagner (1706 1780) was a highly regarded eighteenth century engraver and draughtsman. He was born at Thalendorf, on Lake Constance, in 1706. He studied painting at Venice under Jacopo Amigoni, who persuaded him to turn to engraving, and Wagner accompanied Amigoni to Rome and Bologna, and in 1733 to England. He afterwards went to Paris, to study engraving under Laurent Cars. He then made a second stay in England, where his first productions were portraits of the three princesses, Anne, Amelia, and Caroline, the daughters of George ll. He died in Munich in 1780. His students included Francesco Bartolozzi, Antonio Capellan, Fabio Berardi and Jean Jacques Flipart. “Wagner, Joseph” in Bryan’s Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, a 1905 publication now in the public domain. Bell and Sons, London. The item “Old Master J. B. Tiepolo RESURRECTION Large Antique Engraving 1760 J. Wagner” is in sale since Sunday, November 19, 2017. This item is in the category “Art\Art Prints”. The seller is “old-n-rare-dot-com” and is located in Stockholm. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Original/Reproduction: Original Print
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Signed: Signed
- Edition Type: Limited Edition
- Edition Size: unknown
- Print Type: Etching
- Subject: Religious & Inspirational
- Style: Realism
- Size Type/Largest Dimension: Medium (Up to 30in.)
- Date of Creation: Pre-1800
- Originality: Original
- Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
- Width (Inches): 20
- Height (Inches): 20
- Artist: Tiepolo
- Print Surface: Paper
- Color: Gray
- Medium: Engraving
- Year: 1760