The Betrothal of the Virgin, ca. 1770, Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk. , 19 x 15 3/16 in. (48. 3 x 38. 6 cm), Drawings, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1727?1804 Venice), The elder son of the gifted and accomplished eighteenth century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo, Domenico Tiepolo spent much of his life as workshop assistant to his father. The preeminent painter of the Grand Manner, Giambattista Tiepolo produced fresco cycles and ambitious canvases that decorated the Venetian churches and palaces of Italy, Germany, and Spain