Sepulcher for the Kings of France
1739
Artist, Roman, 1710 - 1782
Artist After, Sicilian, 1678 - 1736
Giuseppe Vasi after Filippo Juvarra
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 39.9 x 53 cm (15 11/16 x 20 7/8 in.)
sheet: 48.2 x 64.3 cm (19 x 25 5/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1991.203.23
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Catalogue Raisonné
Scalabroni 1981, undescribed, State (mentioned p. 16)
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1992
Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 28.
Bibliography
1981
Scalabroni, Luisa. Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782). Rome: Multigrafica Editrice, 1981.
Inscriptions
lower right in pen and brown ink in Vasi's hand: Questi sono i primi rami che io incise in Roma / dai disegni del famoso D. Filippo Juvarra fatti per / una sepolcrale del Re di Francia (These are the first copper plates that I engraved in Rome from drawings by the famous Juvara, that he made for a sepulcher for the Kings of France)
Wikidata ID
Q74896178