Rococo
Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 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
- Original size
- 40.5 × 27.2 cm (16 × 10 3/4 in.)
- Currently held
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Movement
- Rococo
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