AT-00018957
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The Tomb of Agamemnon
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Louis Jean Desprez (French, Auxerre 1743–1804 Stockholm)
- Date
- ca. 1787
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache
- Dimensions
- 29 3/4 x 36 in. (75.6 x 91.4 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, Gifts from Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, Mrs. Francis Ormond, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, William Benton, Donald Silve, William M. Ivins Jr., and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, and other gifts, bequests, and funds, by exchange, 1998
- Accession no.
- 1998.187
Provenance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.
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Open-access museum record · AT-00018957
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