Tomb with Death Standing

Provenance

Private collection, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; sold, Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, May 30, 2018, to C.G. Boerner, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

Tomb with Death Standing

Louis Jean Desprez

1779/84

Accession Number

245150

Medium

Aquatint and etching in black on cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 34.3 × 48.8 cm (13 9/16 × 19 1/4 in.); Sheet: 35.5 × 50 cm (14 × 19 11/16 in.)

Classification

aquatint

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund