Title: Scherzo di Fantasia: Seated Warrior Holding a Serpent, and Standing Youth
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1696–1770
Artist:  Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 
Artist bio: Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Pen and  brown ink, brush with pale and dark brown wash, over black chalk
Dimensions: 13-3/4 x 10-13/16 in.  (34.9 x 27.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1937
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Soldiers, term: Boys, term: Serpents