The Great Executioner with the Head of Saint John the Baptist

1658

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Mezzotint with engraving; third state
Dimensions: Sheet: 25 × 17 7/16 in. (63.5 × 44.3 cm) Image: 24 15/16 × 17 3/8 in. (63.3 × 44.2 cm)
Collection no.: 2015.43
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Prince Rupert of the Pfalz. The Great Executioner with the Head of Saint John the Baptist. Prince Rupert of the Pfalz; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, in honor of George R. Goldner, 2015. 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

The Great Executioner with the Head of Saint John the Baptist — Prince Rupert of the Pfalz. 1658.

Medium: Mezzotint with engraving; third state. Dimensions: Sheet: 25 × 17 7/16 in. (63.5 × 44.3 cm) Image: 24 15/16 × 17 3/8 in. (63.3 × 44.2 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, in honor of George R. Goldner, 2015.

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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