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The Death of Priam

(Austrian (born in Slovenia), 1755–1828)
early 19th century
Medium/TechniquePen and gray ink and brush and gray wash over graphite on three sheets of laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 53.7 x 73 cm (21 1/8 x 28 3/4 in.)
Borderline: 53. x 72.3 cm (20 7/8 x 28 7/16 in.)

Credit LineJuliana Cheney Edwards Collection
Accession number2002.147
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenancePossibly Gupitsch (active about 1840; cf. Lugt 533f and 535), Vienna; Giuseppe Vallardi (b. 1784 – d. 1863, Lugt 1223), Milan; about 1980, purchased at auction in Brussels by Sven Bruntjen, San Rafael, CA; by whom consigned to David and Constance Yates European Drawings and Sculpture, New York; from whom purchased by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: June 26, 2002)
Architectural Design (Piazza with Open Colonnade)
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
Landscape with Figures and Stag Hunt
Unidentified artist, French, 16th century
Landscape with river and monastery
Roelant Roghman
17th century
Capriccio: House and Tower on a Lagoon
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
mid-18th century
Starboard Quarter-Gallery of English Man-o'-War
Willem van de Velde the Elder
mid-17th century
Unidentified artist, Italian, 17th century
About 1600–20
Acrobats
Elie Nadelman
Jewel Box
Jacques de LaJoue II