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Title:View of the Portal and Principal Entrance of the Cathedral of Palermo during the Festival of Sta. Rosalia
Artist:Louis Jean Desprez (French, Auxerre 1743–1804 Stockholm)
Date:n.d.
Medium:Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash and watercolor, over graphite; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions:13 7/16 x 8 1/4 in. (34.2 x 20.9 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971
Object Number:1975.131.107
Michel David-Weill; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.; Harry G. Sperling
Dayton Art Institute. "French Artists in Italy, 1600-1900," October 15, 1971–November 28, 1971.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "15th–18th Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18, 1986–January 4, 1987.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," February 11–April 28, 2014.
Bean and Turcic 1986.99
Nils G. Wollin Desprez en Italie. Malmö, 1935, fig. no. pl. 116, p. 84.
Exhibition of Old Master Drawings. Exh. cat., April - May. P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., 1960, cat. no. 47, fig. no. pl. XIII, ill.
Jane van Nuis Cahill French Artists in Italy, 1600-1900. Exh. cat. The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH. Dayton, Ohio, 1971, cat. no. 30, ill.
Jacob Bean "Review: French Artists in Italy, 1600-1900 (exh. cat., by Jane van Nuis Cahill, Dayton OH, 1971)." in Master Drawings. vol. 10, no. 2, New York, 1972, p. 165.
Pierre Rosenberg French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections. Ex. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario, 2 Sept. - 15 Oct., National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 3 Nov. - 17 Dec. 1972, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 12 Jan. - 11 Mar. 1973. Toronto, 1972, cat. no. under 42, p. 155.
Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th-18th Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, cat. no. 99, pp. 95-96, ill.
La chimère de Monsieur Desprez. Exh. cat., Paris, Louvre. Musée du Louvre, Paris, Feb. 10-May 2, 1994, cat. no. 16, pp. 107-109, ill.
Petra Lamers, Pierre Rosenberg Il viaggio nel sud dell'abbé de Saint-Non: Il "Voyage pittoresque à Naples et en Sicile": La genesi, i disegni preparatori, le incisioni.. Naples, 1995, cat. no. 259a, p. 260.
Louis-Antoine Prat Le Dessin Français au XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 2017, 525.
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