Allegorical Figure of a Woman with a Club (Fortitude?)
Also titled Allegorische vrouwenfiguur met een knots (wellicht Kracht)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice, 1696–1770)
c. 1740 - 1750
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- grisaille
- Dimensions
- height 81 cm x width 65 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- J.W.E. vom Rath Bequest, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Tiepolo was the leading decorative painter of the 18th century, whose work was admired and commissioned throughout Europe. This oval canvas and its companion –two paintings of a series of four –were undoubtedly part of a large decorative programme in a formal room of a Venetian palace (palazzo). The four oval canvasses were meant to be hung high up, so that the gold ground would reflect the candlelight.
