# An Audience with Death

- By: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice, 1696–1770)
- Date: in or before c. 1735
- Medium: paper
- Classification: print
- Dimensions: height 141 mm x width 176 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-P-OB-12.248--4b6487bf70e402ccc5e8f6c498223c5f)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/XoRkb/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A group of young and old people has happened upon Death, as if by accident. Is Death reading to them from the book he holds? His audience seems slightly startled rather than shocked. Only the dog appears to grasp the gravity of the situation: its hackles are raised in fear.