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Louis Jean Desprez

A Siege at Otranto, 1760 - 1804

Description

Maker

  • Louis Jean Desprez, 1743-1804, French

Title

A Siege at Otranto

Year

1760 - 1804

Medium

watercolor and chalk on white paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • chalk,
  • watercolor

Supports

  • white paper

Dimensions

19.1 x 14.6 cm (7 1/2 x 5 13/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Verso: Inscribed in graphite: "Duplessis-Berteaux"

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

58.084

Projects & Publications

Publications

Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Old Master Drawings

September 2 - October 16, 1983

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is A Siege at Otranto with the accession number of 58.084. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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