Sepulcher for the Kings of France, 1739

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Scalabroni 1981, undescribed, State (mentioned p. 16)

Accession Number

1991.203.23

Artists / Makers

Giuseppe Vasi (artist) Roman, 1710 - 1782

Filippo Juvarra (artist after) Sicilian, 1678 - 1736

Image Use

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Inscription

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)

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.