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Ground Plan for a Catafalque for Frederick Augustus I, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony (1694-1733)

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Ground Plan for a Catafalque for Frederick Augustus I, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony (1694-1733)

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

ca. 1733

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk

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Dimensions

sheet: 18 3/16 x 14 15/16 in. (46.2 x 38 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, by exchange, 1972

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

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