Illustration for a Book: Keys of a City Offered to a Procession of Cardinals Headed by a Riderless Horse

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696

MEDIUMBlack chalk. Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint black chalk

DIMENSIONS2-15/16 x 6-1/8 in. (7.5 x 15.5 cm)

LOCATIONThe Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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