The Tomb of Agamemnon
Object type: Drawing
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Louis Jean Desprez
Artist bio: French, Auxerre 1743–1804 Stockholm
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: French
Date: ca. 1787
Medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray washes, heightened with white gouache on beige paper
Dimensions: 29 3/4 x 36 in.  (75.6 x 91.4 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Purchase, Gifts from Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, Mrs. Francis Ormond, Bessie Potter Vonnoh, William Benton, Donald Silve, William M. Ivins Jr., and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, and other gifts, bequests, and funds, by exchange, 1998
Accession year: 1998
Tags: Opera|Tombs