ART TRACKERSConnecting fine art to people
Platform OverviewPlatform SecurityPricingTechnology OverviewTags & PlaquesWhat is UAINLegal & Compliance
GovernmentTribal NationsArtistsUniversity & CollegesServices
InstitutionsExploreMuseum Collections
Artists
Why Art TrackersAboutContactBlogDocumentationCareers
Request demo
Platform OverviewPlatform SecurityPricingTechnology OverviewTags & PlaquesWhat is UAINLegal & Compliance
GovernmentTribal NationsArtistsUniversity & CollegesServices
InstitutionsExploreMuseum Collections
Artists
Why Art TrackersAboutContactBlogDocumentationCareers
Request demo
Art Trackers logo
ART TRACKERS
Connecting fine art to people

Connecting fine art to people. Preserving cultural legacy through technology.

Platform

FeaturesHow It WorksSecurityIntegrations

Government

For Cities & CountiesComplianceResourcesCase Studies

Resources

DocumentationHelp CenterBlog

Company

About UsCareersNewsContact Us

© 2026 Art Trackers LLC. All rights reserved.

Privacy PolicyTerms of ServiceAccessibility
    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Caricature of a Man, Full-Length, Facing Left
    Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Caricature of a Man, Full-Length, Facing Left, 1754/62. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004789

    Caricature of a Man, Full-Length, Facing Left

    by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Arthur Kay, Edinburgh; sold, Christie’s, London, April 9, 1943, Kay sale, lot 247. Possibly Arcade Gallery, London [according to Joachim and McCullagh 1979]. Sold by Koetser Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1944.

    Exhibition history

    Rhode Island School of Design, "Caricature and Its Role in Graphic Satire," April 7-May 9, 1971, cat. 36. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 118, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. The Art Institute of Chicago, "18th Century Venetian Drawings," January 11-May 5, 1985.

    Publications

    Terisio Pignatti, I disegni veneziani del Settecento (Canova, 1966), p. 182 (ill.). Julius Held and Donald Posner, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Art (Englewood Cliffs, 1971), p. 344, (ill.). Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 79, no. 118, pl. 127. Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings from the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), p. 49, no. 2B3.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

    • View this work at the Art Institute of Chicago
    • The Art Institute of Chicago: open-access terms

    Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Giovanni Battista Tiepolo / Italian, 1696–1770
    Date
    1754/62
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper
    Dimensions
    22.4 × 14.9 cm (8 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Samuel P. Avery Collection
    Accession no.
    1944.173R

    More by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in museum collections

    • Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth

      Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

      1730–35 · Painting

      Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

      AT-00000736
    • Rinaldo and Armida in Her Garden

      Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

      c. 1742–45 · Painting

      Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

      AT-00000739
    • Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo

      Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

      c. 1742–45 · Painting

      Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

      AT-00000741
    • Armida Abandoned by Rinaldo

      Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

      c. 1742–45 · Painting

      Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

      AT-00000743

    Open-access museum record · AT-00004789

    Powered by Art Trackers