A Magician, A Soldier, and Three Figures Watching a Burning Skull

An etching in black ink on paper shows a reclining soldier in a cloak and tall hat beside a crumbling stone pillar, while a bearded magician in a robe and a woman with a flowered wreath look on. A flaming skull sits at the lower right, and a wooden staff lies across the foreground.

Artist

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Date

1735–40

Medium

Etching printed in black on paper

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 2084 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund