Fantasy on the Death of Seneca

A pen and brown wash drawing of a fantasy scene around a stone basin. In the foreground, a reclining figure lies across the left side, while a nude man bends over the basin beside a fountain spout. Turbaned onlookers and architectural forms crowd the background, sketched in quick, loose strokes over faint black chalk.

Artist

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Date

1735/40

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

843 × 1203 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Regenstein Collection