Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World

1742/43

Dating

Date range

Held at

Art Institute of Chicago

Medium

Black chalk, with pen and black and brown ink and brush and various brown washes, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper

Dimensions

40.5 × 27.2 cm (16 × 10 3/4 in.)

Collection no.

2022.96

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World, 1742/43. Inventory 2022.96. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/202256. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.