Sacrificial Offering in a Temple
after 1750
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778)
Drawings
Sacrificial Offering in a Temple, after 1750. Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720–1778). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 14.3 x 9.1 cm (5 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.); secondary support: 15.3 x 10.4 cm (6 x 4 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1953.259
- Maker/Artist
- Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 14.3 x 9.1 cm (5 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.); Secondary Support: 15.3 x 10.4 cm (6 x 4 1/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: falsley signed, lower right, in brown ink: Piranesi ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, center, in brown ink: Piranese ; upper left, in graphite: 9421 [underlined]
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1953.259
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition, Drawings, Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection, CMA, Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection (Dec. 15, 1986-Mar. 1, 1987).<br>CMA, Venice As City and Theater (Feb. 27-Apr. 21, 1985).<br>CMA, Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands (Jan. 14-Mar. 24, 1965).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Jan. 11-Sep. 10, 1963).<br>CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (Mar. 7-Apr. 26, 1962).<br>CMA, Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition (Mar. 3, 1958-Oct. 11, 1959)., [did not find a registrarial file for this one, Mar. 1996]-?
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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