Tomb with Caryatids

Prints and Drawings

1779/84

Louis Jean Desprez
French, 1743-1804

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Louis Jean Desprez
Title: Tomb with Caryatids
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1779–1784
Medium: Aquatint and etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Plate: 32.5 × 48.5 cm (12 13/16 × 19 1/8 in.); Sheet: 33.8 × 49.9 cm (13 5/16 × 19 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund
Reference Number: 2018.258
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Private collection, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; sold, Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, May 30, 2018, to the Art Institute of Chicago.

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