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Francesco Piranesi and Louis Jean Desprez

Il Santo Padre in atto d’adorazione innanzi al Sacramento esposto solennemente da Lui nella Capella Paolina in Vaticano la Domenica dell’ Avvento

1782-1783

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Il Santo Padre in atto d’adorazione innanzi al Sacramento esposto solennemente da Lui nella Capella Paolina in Vaticano la Domenica dell’ Avvento

1782-1783

Physical Qualities Etching and aquatint (by Piranesi after Desprez's design) with hand coloring (by Desprez), Sheet: 790 x 492 mm. (31 1/8 x 19 3/8 in.) Plate: 697 x 474 mm. (27 7/16 x 18 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number 2006.28
The print is by Piranesi after a design by Desprez and was executed in 1783-84; the hand coloring was added in 1788 by Desprez.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2006; Helmut Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main; Private Collection, Germany
La Chimère de Monsieur Desprez. Exh cat. Musée du Louvre, 10 Feb - 2 May 1994, pp. 47-50.
Rumbler, Helmut H., Gang Durch de Jahrhunderte: Druckgraphik von 1465-1891. Katalog 40, 2005, no. 69.
Wollin, Nils Gustaf Axelsson. Gravures originales de Desprez ou exécutées d'après ses dessins (Malmö, Sweden: John Kroon, A. B. Malmö Ljustrycksanstalt, 1933), no. 2.

Markings: WM: Strasbourg Lily with JH&Z (Heawood 1860) and J HONIG & ZOONEN (Heawood 3345)

Artist

Francesco Piranesi

2000–1809

Italian, 1758/59-1810
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Artist

Louis Jean Desprez

1742–1803

French, 1743-1804
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