The Grotto of Posillipo (La Grotta di Posillipo)

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Prints and Drawings

1785/90

Louis-Jean Desprez (French, c. 1743-1804)
and Francesco Piranesi (Italian, 1758-1810)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Louis Jean Desprez
Title: The Grotto of Posillipo (La Grotta di Posillipo)
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.: 1785–1890
Medium: Handcolored etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 68.5 × 47.2 cm (27 × 18 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2022.55
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Piranèse et les francais, 1740-1790, exh. cat., ed. B. K. de Rola (Rome: Académie de France, 1976), pp. 121, 124-5, no. 60.
Magnus Olausson, “Desprez et Piranèse fils: de l’original à la reproduction,” La Chimère de Monsieur Desprez, ed. Régis Michel (Paris, 1994), pp. 47-50.

Private collection, France; around 2005; to Paolo Antonacci, Rome; around 2010; to a private, collection, Germany; sold, Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, May 30, 2013, lot 5342, to David Tunick, Inc., New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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