About the Artwork
Louis XVI Ascending the Scaffold
19th century
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Anonymous
Unknown
Etching in black, colored by hand on wove paper
Image: 4 3/8 × 6 1/4 inches (11.1 × 15.9 cm) Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 1/4 inches (18.1 × 23.5 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of Jerome I. Smith
F81.340
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in plate, below image: LOUIS THE 16 ASCENDING THE SCAFFOLD
Marked, watermark, possibly a date or number and device in the upper right.
Provenance
Jerome Irving Smith
1981-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Anonymous, Louis XVI Ascending the Scaffold, 19th century, etching in black, colored by hand on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Jerome I. Smith, F81.340.
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