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A magician, a soldier and three figures watching a burning skull from the Scherzi di Fantasia
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A magician, a soldier and three figures watching a burning skull from the Scherzi di Fantasia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1743–50 · Etching; first state of two

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Credit lineA magician, a soldier and three figures watching a burning skull from the Scherzi di Fantasia. ca. 1743–50. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund; Dodge and Pfeiffer Funds; Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Gift of Bertina Suida Manning and Robert L. Manning, 1976. CC0.
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