# Sketch for a Ceiling, in Rococo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted this in the 1750s, aged about 54. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> This small, quickly painted picture is typical of the sketches Tiepolo made as studies for larger compositions. When completed full-scale on a ceiling, works like these give the impression of a massive window, through which one can see angels or mythological beings floating among the clouds.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1750s
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Framed: 51.5 x 43 x 6.5 cm (20 1/4 x 16 15/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 41 x 34 cm (16 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.780
- 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.

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