About the Artwork
A Vast Crypt with Tombs
between 1758 and 1823
Felice Giani
1758-1823
Italian
Unknown
Pen and black ink and black wash over a faint preliminary drawing in graphite on buff wove paper
Sheet: 10 5/8 × 16 9/16 inches (27 × 42.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
34.144
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Provenance
Charles Albert de Burlet (Berlin, Germany)
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 113, no. 54.
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Felice Giani, A Vast Crypt with Tombs, between 1758 and 1823, pen and black ink and black wash over a faint preliminary drawing in graphite on buff wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.144.
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