c. 1752
The Holy Family Passing a Statue
Giovanni Domenico TiepoloItalian (active Venice, Würzburg, and Madrid) 1727 - 1804
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo worked on the plates for his series of twenty-four etchings on the theme of the Flight into Egypt while he and his father, Giovanni Battista, were executing frescoes for the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg. Dedicated to the Prince-Bishop, the series of etchings displays Giovanni Domenico's facility for inventive compositions and variations on a single theme. Here the Holy Family passes by a pagan statue, which begins to crumble in the presence of the infant Christ. The head of the statue falls through the air, about to crash to the ground at lower left.
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