Time and Truth at Carlton Hobbs

Amongst Jean-Luc Baroni's beautiful works on show at the Carlton Hobbs antiques gallery is this pen and ink drawing by G. B. Tiepolo.

Three further studies of of the figures of Time and Truth are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a fourth at the Pierpoint Morgan Library. The menacing angle of the scythe held by Time may be an expression of the transience of beauty.

 

Time and Truth
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Venice 1696 - 1770 Madrid
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk.
222 by 211 mm (8 3/4 by 8 1/3 in.)

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