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Vanitas (A Figure Grieving at a Classical Tomb)

(Italian, 1727–1792)
1766
Medium/TechniqueEtching
DimensionsSheet: 32 x 22cm (12 5/8 x 8 11/16in.)
Platemark: 13.3 x 9.5cm (5 1/4 x 3 3/4in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Alan J. Dworsky and Suzanne Werber Dworsky
Accession number1999.59
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsEtched in the plate, on pedestal, upper right, "B Bossi / 1766"
ProvenanceJan Johnson Old Master and Modern Prints, Inc., Montreal; from whom purchased March 24, 1999