Scene of Contemporary Life: The Acrobats

1727–1804

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk
Dimensions: 11-7/16 x 16-1/4 in. (29 x 41.3 cm)
Collection no.: 68.54.4
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. Scene of Contemporary Life: The Acrobats. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1968. 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

Scene of Contemporary Life: The Acrobats — Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. 1727–1804.

Medium: Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk. Dimensions: 11-7/16 x 16-1/4 in. (29 x 41.3 cm).

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

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1968.

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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