Art Institute of Chicago
Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Date
- 1742/43
- Medium
- Black chalk, with pen and black and brown ink and brush and various brown washes, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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