Title: Tomb with Death Enthroned as a Sphinx
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1779–84
Artist:  Louis Jean Desprez 
Artist bio: French, Auxerre 1743–1804 Stockholm
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink, ii/ii
Dimensions: Sheet: 13 1/4 x 19 7/16 in. (33.7 x 49.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, in honor of Colta Ives, 2012
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Tombs, term: Skeletons