Two Monks Contemplating a Skull

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Title

Two Monks Contemplating a Skull

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1725–1735

Medium

Brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper

Dimensions

43.7 × 29.6 cm (17 1/4 × 11 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Print and Drawing Club

Reference Number

1931.454

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