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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Carrying of the Cross, 1747

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Medium

pen and gray-brown ink with gray-brown wash over black chalk on laid paper; laid down

Dimensions

Overall: 18.3 x 13.6 cm (7 3/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
support: 23.1 x 17.4 cm (9 1/8 x 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Rudolf J. Heinemann and an Anonymous Donor

Accession Number

1989.66.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

center right in brown ink: Cesare[?]; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 5232 010

Provenance

[undeciphered]

Associated Names

Scarpa, Pietro

Exhibition History

1996: Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman, Civici Musei e Gallerie di Storia ed Arte, Udine, 1996; Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, 1997, no. 7, as by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.

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