# Three Angels Appearing to Abraham, in 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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