id:			313396
accession number:	2018.207
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.207
updated:		2025-04-16 18:20:45.302000

Tomb with Sphinxes and an Owl, c. 1779–84. Louis Jean Desprez (French, 1743–1804). Aquatint with etching; platemark: 34 x 48.7 cm (13 3/8 x 19 3/16 in.); sheet: 35 x 50.3 cm (13 3/4 x 19 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Trust, 2018.207

title:				Tomb with Sphinxes and an Owl
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creation date:			c. 1779–84
creation date earliest:		1774
creation date latest:		1789
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Trust
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	aquatint with etching
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Aquatint
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Wollin 28

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CREATORS

* Louis Jean Desprez (French, 1743–1804)  - artist

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measurements: Platemark: 34 x 48.7 cm (13 3/8 x 19 3/16 in.); Sheet: 35 x 50.3 cm (13 3/4 x 19 13/16 in.)
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	inscription:	inscribed in graphite on verso: 1881 / 10; watermark and countermark: fleur de lis enclosed in a circle, (right side of sheet); VM’TORJ, (est.), (left side of the sheet)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Egyptomania: Fashion’s Conflicted Obsession
	opening date:   2023-04-01T04:00:00
	<i>Egyptomania: Fashion’s Conflicted Obsession</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1, 2023-January 28, 2024).

	title:		Imagination in the Age of Reason
	opening date:   2024-09-28T04:00:00
	<i>Imagination in the Age of Reason</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 28, 2024-March 2, 2025).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 2018
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2018-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Wollin, Nils G. <em>Gravures originales de Desprez ou exécutées d'après dessins</em>. Malmö: J. Kroon, 1933.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 57, no. 28 (as Tombeau c); Reproduced: p. 146
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	Peters, Emily and Salsbury, Britany. “Acquisitions 2018: Prints and Drawings.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>vol. 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 20-23.
	page number: 	Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 22.
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