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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
The Skeletons1750-circa 1759

On view:
BCAM 3rd Floor, Danse Macabre: Death in Print from Dürer to Dix
Etching with dense crosshatched lines on cream paper, showing figures among ruined architecture, sculptural fragments, acanthus scrollwork, and garlands in a rocky landscape

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, The Skeletons, 1750-circa 1759, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis King, Jr., photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Italy, Mogliano, 1720-1778
Publisher
Giovanni Bouchard
Italy, fl. 1750-1789
Title
The Skeletons
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
1750-circa 1759
Medium
Etching, engraving, drypoint, and burnishing
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 3/8 x 21 1/4 in. (39.05 x 53.98 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis King, Jr.
Accession Number
M.65.46.1
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • David Tunick, Inc. Italian Prints of the Eighteenth Century, Catalogue Number 11. New York, N.Y.: D. Tunick, 1981.

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