Art, literature & history
An Oriental Chieftain Resting
1727–1804
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk
- Dimensions
- sheet: 7 13/16 x 10 9/16 in. (19.9 x 26.8 cm)
- Collection no.
- 35.42.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. An Oriental Chieftain Resting. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fletcher Fund, 1935. 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
An Oriental Chieftain Resting — Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. 1727–1804.
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk. Dimensions: sheet: 7 13/16 x 10 9/16 in. (19.9 x 26.8 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Fletcher Fund, 1935.
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.