Death of Cleopatra | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: G4079
People: Johann Georg Wille, German (Königsberg in Bayern, Germany 1715 - 1808 Paris, France)
After Caspar Netscher, Dutch (1639-1684)
Title: Death of Cleopatra
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Mort de Cléopatra
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1754
Places: Creation Place: Europe, Germany
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/278370

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Engraving on off-white antique laid paper
Technique: Engraving
Dimensions: Image: 34 × 27.9 cm (13 3/8 × 11 in.)
Sheet: 40.5 × 30 cm (15 15/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Francis Calley Gray, bequest to nephew, 1856.
William Gray, gift to Harvard University, 1857.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State: iv/iv
Standard Reference Number: Le Bl. 5

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of William Gray from the collection of Francis Calley Gray
Object Number: G4079
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

William McAllister Johnson, The Rise and Fall of the Fine Art Print in Eighteenth-Century France, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, 2016), repr. as fig. 37 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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G4079: Death of Cleopatra