Title: Executioner Holding Up a Severed Head
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1682–1754
Artist:  Giovanni Battista Piazzetta 
Artist bio: Italian, Venice 1682–1754 Venice
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Charcoal, highlighted with white chalk, on gray-blue paper
Dimensions: 15-15/16 x 10-1/2 in.  (40.5 x 26.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1961
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Swords, term: Heads, term: Men