Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Fantastic Interior with Torture Scene

Louis-Jean Desprez
1743-1804

Fantastic Interior with Torture Scene

18 3/8 x 14 5/16 inches (467 x 363 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray-black ink, brown and gray washes, with opaque white, over graphite, on paper.
1950.8

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

Notes
Watermark: indecipherable through lining, includes letters "GUREN..N?".
Associated names
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Calmann, Hans M., former owner.
Bibliography
Adams, Frederick B., Jr. First Annual Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1950, p. 54.
A review of acquisitions, 1949-1968 / Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : The Library, 1969, p. 141.
Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 83.
Denison, Cara, Myra Nan Rosenfeld, and Stephanie Wiles. Exploring Rome : Piranesi and His Contemporaries. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library; Montréal : Centre Canadien d'Architecture, 1993, no. 108, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department