Ceremony held in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican
Medium
Etching; second sate of three (Wollin)
Dimensions
Sheet: 21 5/8 x 31 1/2 in. (55 x 80 cm) Plate: 30 5/16 x 20 1/4 in. (77 x 51.5 cm) printed horizontally
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
41.71.1.22(4)
Tags
About the Artist
Louis Jean Desprez|Francesco Piranesi · 1743–1804
Louis Jean Desprez (1743–1804), born in Auxerre to a wig-maker father and widowed mother, began his artistic training as a twelve-year-old apprentice under engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin in Paris in 1755. He later studied at the Académie royale d'architecture, sponsored by architect Pierre Desmaisons, and became a pupil of Charles de Wailly from 1768 to 1776, embracing neoclassicism inspired by I...