Art, literature & history
Two Monks Contemplating a Skull
c. 1730–35
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 43.7 × 29.6 cm (17 1/4 × 11 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1931.454
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Two Monks Contemplating a Skull, c. 1730–35. Inventory 1931.454. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/8816. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Two Monks Contemplating a Skull — Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. c. 1730–35.
Medium: Brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper. Dimensions: 43.7 × 29.6 cm (17 1/4 × 11 11/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
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.