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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Polyphemus Hurling Rocks at Fleeing Greeks
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Polyphemus Hurling Rocks at Fleeing Greeks

Artist Bartolomeo Tarsia
CultureItalian
Date18th century
MediumInk, wash, laid paper
DimensionsOverall: 7 1/4 x 10 in. (18.4 x 25.4 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (48.9 x 36.2 cm)
Inscribed"T" at lower left. Circled "D.F.P." in pale blue stamped on back. Written in pencil on back "C 192 Attributed to G.D. Tiepolo-1925/7170" with the 7170 within a circle.
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number50.48.105
On View
Not on view
DescriptionItalian School ink and wash on laid paper drawing. Of a rock hurling giant. Faint small pencil sketch on back.

ProvenanceDan Fellows Platt, Englewood, N.J., d. 1938; Mrs. Platt,1938-50; Chrysler Museum Purchase, 1950 Published ReferencesSPARK'S CATALOGUE, no number.
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino)
ca. 1644
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
No Date
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
after 1770
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Ariel Parkinson
1962
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
16th century
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
1892-1915
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2017.
Tizianello
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Dean Fossit
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Joseph Pennell
not dated
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
ca. 1900