# Three Angels Appearing to Abraham, in Baroque and Rococo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted this in about 1726, aged about 27. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> Three angels appear to Abraham at Mamre to announce that his aged wife Sarah will bear a son, as told in Genesis.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1726
- Medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions: 43.1 × 28.5 cm (17 × 11 1/4 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970.41
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Giovanni Battista Tiepolo](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/giovanni-battista-tiepolo), Italian, 1696–1770

Tiepolo was the leading decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe, covering ceilings and walls with airy skies, foreshortened figures and luminous colour.

10 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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