Elephant in a Landscape

1727–1804

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink at left, right, and upper borders
Dimensions: sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 9/16 in. (18.1 x 24.3 cm)
Collection no.: 60.12
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. Elephant in a Landscape. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Eva B. Gebhard Gourgaud, 1959. 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

Elephant in a Landscape — Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. 1727–1804.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink at left, right, and upper borders. Dimensions: sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 9/16 in. (18.1 x 24.3 cm).

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

Credit line: Bequest of Eva B. Gebhard Gourgaud, 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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