Design for the Ceiling of the Salon of the Palazzo Spinola, Genoa

1777

Louis-Jean Desprez

Artist, French, 1743 - 1804

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper [proof]

  • Credit Line

    Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 57.2 × 42.7 cm (22 1/2 × 16 13/16 in.)
    plate: 44.6 × 33.5 cm (17 9/16 × 13 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.196.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wollin 1933, no. 4 [proof]

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Martinez D, Paris); purchased 2022 by National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1933

  • Wollin, Nils, Graveurs Originales de Desprez ou Executees d'Apres Ses Dessins, Paris, 1933, no. 4

Inscriptions

lower center in crayon: Plafond du Salon Spinola / Exécuté a Genes d'après les dessins du S. De Wailly, architecte ancien controleur des bâtiments du Roy / de ces academies Royales d'architecture, peinture, sculpture, et de [not deciphered] de Bologne

Markings

none

Watermarks

papermaker's name [not deciphered]

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