Choix des Mellieurs Statues Antiques

Artist Francesco Piranesi (Italian, 1756 - 1810)

Date1800-1809

MediumLeather-bound volume of 41 plates; etchings on paper

DimensionsOverall: 16 × 1 × 22 inches (40.64 × 2.54 × 55.88 cm)

Credit LineGift of John H. Bender

Object numberF99-15/16

Edition/State/Prooffirst Paris edition

On View

Not on view

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Prints

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Exhibition History

[No known exhibitions at this time]

Provenance

John H. Bender (1884-1963), Kansas City, MO, by 1958;

Given by John H. Bender to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Library Collection, Kansas City, MO, 1958;

Transferred from Library Collection to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1999.

Published References

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 308, 311, as Vol. 16 Choix des Mellieurs Statues Antiques, title page and 41 unno. pl. (incl. 1 pl., Statua del Gladiator Moribondo, by Andrea Rossi after Pietro Angeletti).

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