Louis-Jean Desprez

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Louis-Jean Desprez
1743-1804
View of the Ruins of the Temple of Juno at Metapontum
Pen and black ink, with watercolor, on paper.
8 3/16 x 13 7/16 inches (208 x 341 mm)
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.
1959.2
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This drawing was engraved in the same direction by Jean-Duplessis-Bertaux and Charles Guttenberg in the Abbé de Saint Non's "Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile", Paris, 1781-86, vol. III, pp. 77-78, pl. 37.

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Watermark: Countermark: D & C Blauw.

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The Hermitage, Leningrad; sale, Leipzig, Boerner, 29 April 1931, no. 52; Albert Meyer, Paris; Seligmann, Paris, 1936; Winslow and Anna Ames, New London, Connecticut (blind stamp at upper left corner).
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Meyer, Albert, former owner.
Ames, Winslow, former owner.
Ames, Anna, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, p. 109-110.
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. 120.
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. 110, repr.

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