Stage Set for Armida, Act 1, Scene 3
Louis-Jean Desprez
(French, 1743–1804)
1787
Medium/TechniquePen and black ink, brush and gray and brown washes, heightened with opaque white watercolor, over graphite
DimensionsImage: 44.5 × 53.7 cm (17 1/2 × 21 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 48.3 × 58.7 cm (19 × 23 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 48.3 × 58.7 cm (19 × 23 1/8 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Claire W. Morse and Richard P. Morse, and Barbara Wheaton
Accession number2019.751
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDrawings
Collections
ProvenanceFrom about 1787 until about 2017, collections in Sweden [see note]. 2017, sold by Amells, Stockholm, to Hill-Stone, Inc., South Dartmouth, MA; 2019, sold by Hill-Stone, Inc., to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 2019)
NOTE: The drawing was said at the time of acquisition to come from a private collection, Sweden. It was created in Sweden, and a copy after it was made there by Desprez’s student Per Estenberg, suggesting that it remained in Sweden continually from the time of its creation until it was sold.
NOTE: The drawing was said at the time of acquisition to come from a private collection, Sweden. It was created in Sweden, and a copy after it was made there by Desprez’s student Per Estenberg, suggesting that it remained in Sweden continually from the time of its creation until it was sold.
Giuseppe Bernadino Bison
late 18th–early 19th century
