COLLECTION NAME:
Theatre Arts
Record
Title:
Charletan, The
Title.Alternate:
Tooth-Puller, The
Collection Title:
Theatre Arts
Creator.Persons:
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770
Notes:
1754-1755 ; Louvre Museum
Collection Information:
Collection administered by the Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library, (402)-472-1193
Description:
A Venetian street scene features a charlatan holding aloft a tooth he has just pulled ; the patient, his mouth held open by an unkempt, bespectacled assistant, writhes in pain ; passersby, masked for Carnival, pay little heed to the operation ; oil on canvas
Subject.Persons:
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770
Subject.Entities:
Musee du Louvre
Subject:
Enlightenment ;Festivals in art ;Painting, Italian ;Painting -- 18th century ;Painting, Rococo
Subject.AAT:
Figures, female ;Figures, male
Location:
Italy -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
Image.Publisher:
University of Nebraska--Lincoln, Libraries
Image.Date:
2014
