The Decapitation of a Male Saint

1686–1775

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Brush and red wash, over red chalk
Dimensions: 14 3/16 x 10 1/4in. (36.1 x 26cm)
Collection no.: 65.224
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Carlo Innocenzo Carlone. The Decapitation of a Male Saint. Carlo Innocenzo Carlone; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1965. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Decapitation of a Male Saint — Carlo Innocenzo Carlone. 1686–1775.

Medium: Brush and red wash, over red chalk. Dimensions: 14 3/16 x 10 1/4in. (36.1 x 26cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1965.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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