Seated Youth Leaning Against an Urn — Tiepolo Tapestry Blanket

This etching belongs to the Capricci, ten fantastical prints Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) made in the 1740s, in which soldiers, sorcerers and idle youths gather around funerary urns and classical ruins in scenes without clear narrative. Tiepolo, the leading decorative painter of the Venetian Rococo, used the series to conjure a moody, theatrical world of his own invention, quite distinct from the luminous, celebratory frescoes for which he is best known.

Jacquard-woven in soft, durable cotton — a warm, fully reversible throw for the sofa, bed or reading chair.