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The Assassination of Peter Martyr, between 1747 and 1826

  • Dominique Vivant Denon, French, 1747-1826
  • Titian, Italian, ca.1488-1576

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 20 1/2 × 13 inches (52.1 × 33 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S358

Signed, in plate, lower right of image: Denon S

September 1887, C. J. Meyer (Carlsbad). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Roux, M. Inventaire du Fonds Francais. Paris, 1949, no. 250.

Dominique Vivant Denon; after Titian, The Assassination of Peter Martyr, between 1747 and 1826, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S358.