Fete at the Palace of Tiberius on Capri

Artist Jean Louis Desprez (French, 1743 - 1804)

Date18th century

MediumPen and gray ink with washes in gray, blue, green, and yellow

DimensionsOverall: 8 3/16 × 13 7/16 inches (20.8 × 34.13 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Milton McGreevy

Object number81-30/20

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

Exhibition History

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 60, as Fête at the Palace of Tiberius on Capri.

City Views, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 31-July 10, 1983, no. 24, as Capri. Fête at the Palace of Tiberius on Capri.

Provenance

With Nathan Chaikin, New York, by April 24, 1959;

Purchased from Chaikin by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, April 24, 1959-1980 [1];

His bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

NOTES:

[1] NAMA Archives, MS007 Milton McGreevy Records.

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 7, 34-35, (repro.), as Fête at the Palace of Tiberius on Capri.

Ross E. Taggart and Roger B. Ward, City Views, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1983), 12, 27, (repro.), as Capri. Fête at the Palace of Tiberius on Capri.

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