Illustration for a Book: Soldiers Offering the Decapitated Head of a Man and Keys to a General

1696–1770

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk reworked with traces of red chalk. Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint black chalk
Dimensions: 2-15/16 x 6-1/8 in. (7.5 x 15.5 cm)
Collection no.: 59.600.186
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Illustration for a Book: Soldiers Offering the Decapitated Head of a Man and Keys to a General. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Illustration for a Book: Soldiers Offering the Decapitated Head of a Man and Keys to a General — Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. 1696–1770.

Medium: Black chalk reworked with traces of red chalk. Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint black chalk. Dimensions: 2-15/16 x 6-1/8 in. (7.5 x 15.5 cm).

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959.

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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