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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Illumination of the Cross in St. Peter's

Francesco Piranesi|Louis Jean Desprez

1758–1810

Attribution
|Designed and probably colored by Francesco Piranesi|Louis Jean Desprez | Italian, Rome 1758–1810 Paris|French, Auxerre 1743–1804 Stockholm
Medium
Etching, hand colored with brown and gray wash and white gouache
Physical dimensions
Sheet: 27 × 18 1/2 in. (68.6 × 47 cm)
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
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