Death of Cleopatra, between 1727 and 1785

  • Benvenuto Cellini, Italian, 1500-1571
  • Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian, 1727-1785

Etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 9 × 5 7/8 inches (22.9 × 14.9 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S282

Stamped, verso: Scripps 1885 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed, in plate, lower margin: CLEOPATRA ANIMAM EFFLANS. | DE CEREO EXEMPLARI EIVSDEM MAGNITVDINIS AVCTORE | BENVENVTO CELLINI PENES THOMAM HOLLIS HOSPITII LINCOL- | NIENSIS R.ET A.SS.S. IOHANNES BAPTISTA CIPRIANI FLORENTINVS | DELINEAVIT ET AQVAE FORTIS OPE INSCVLPSIT

December 1885, Kissam sale. Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Giovanni Battista Cipriani; after Benvenuto Cellini, Death of Cleopatra, between 1727 and 1785, etching and engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S282.