Lion, Lioness and Cubs

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, n.d.

A work made of pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, with traces of brown gouache, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on blue wove paper, laid down on brown wove paper. · description from the collection

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Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo ¹
Date: n.d. ¹
Medium: Pen and brown ink, and brush and brown wash, with traces of brown gouache, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on blue wove paper, laid down on brown wove paper ¹
Original: 1,024 × 682 px ¹
License: Public domain (Art Institute of Chicago)
Credit: Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

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