Centaur Embracing Nymph in a Wild Landscape — Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo | DiscoverArt

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Centaur Embracing Nymph in a Wild Landscape

ca. 1771–91

Pen and brown and dark brown ink, gray-brown wash

18.8 × 27.2 cm (7.4 × 10.7 in)

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