A Saint Preaching, and the Head of an Oriental

ca. 1759

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over rough black chalk
Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (19 x 26 cm)
Collection no.: 1975.1.502
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. A Saint Preaching, and the Head of an Oriental. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. 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

A Saint Preaching, and the Head of an Oriental — Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. ca. 1759.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over rough black chalk. Dimensions: 7 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (19 x 26 cm).

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

Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.

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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