About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Louis Jean Desprez
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Title
- The Chimera
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1771
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Medium
- Etching in black on cream laid paper
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Inscriptions
- Lettered, lower left: "Desprez Inv. et Sculp."; belowe image: "Avec privilege du Roy."; inscribed below plate, lower center, in graphite: “Desprez (Louis-Jean) Peintre et architecte né à Auver en 1743 mort en 1804 à Stockholm. Peintre de batailles / (Louis Desprez 1743-1804)”; several partially erased graphite inscriptions lower left.
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Dimensions
- Image: 27.9 × 36 cm (11 × 14 3/16 in.); Plate: 32.3 × 38 cm (12 3/4 × 15 in.); Sheet: 43 × 53 cm (16 15/16 × 20 7/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund
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Reference Number
- 2018.195
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/243592/manifest.json
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