Detail View: Theatre Arts :

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