# Family Meal [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TIEPOLO, Giovanni Domenico]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Fresco ## Commentary This scene is on the wall of the room with Rustic Scenes in the Foresteria of the Villa Valmarana. Within curious frames interwoven with rings that were painted in advance by Girolamo Mengozzi Colonna, and almost seem to open up the walls of the space to the surrounding countryside, Tiepolo painted some of his most compelling works. One is the Family Meal, depicting the head of the family seated at an outdoor table, his youngest son in his arms, and his wife eating standing up, her plate resting on her belly, swollen with yet another pregnancy. ## Related artworks - [Ball in the Country]() - [Carnival Scene \(The Minuet\)]() - [Cavalcade of the Pulcinellas]() - [Ceiling tondo]() - [Charlatan]() - [Charlatan]() - [Christ and the Adulteress]() - [Classical Figures Conducting an Antique Rite]() - [Exotic Figures]() - [Faith]() - [Falcon Pursuing a Flock of Finches]() - [Family Meal \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()