Louis XVI Ascending the Scaffold, ca. 1795

  • Charles Benazeck, English, 1767-1794
  • Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian, 1765-1810

Engraving printed in black ink on wove paper

  • Image: 17 5/8 × 24 inches (44.8 × 61 cm) Sheet: 20 3/4 × 26 3/8 inches (52.7 × 67 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1087

Inscribed, in plate, below image, lower left: Painted by C.. Benazeck. Inscribed, lower right: Engraved by L.. Schiavonetti.. Inscribed, center lower margin: THE CALM AND COLLECTED BEHAVIOUR OF Louis the Sixteenth ON PARTING FROM HIS CONFESSOR EDGEWORTH | THE MOMENT BEFORE A PERIOD WAS PUT TO HIS EXISTENCE ON THE 21 OF JANUARY 1793. | In consequence of the Sentence of the National Convention passed the Night of the 19th of the same Month. | LONDON Published the 1.. of February 1795.. - By Mess..rs Colnaghi & Co.. No.. 132 Pall.. Mall..

April 1887, (Bangs and Co., New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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

Luigi Schiavonetti; after Charles Benazeck, Louis XVI Ascending the Scaffold, ca. 1795, engraving printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1087.