View of Messina
View of Messina

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View of Messina

Louis Jean Desprez, French, 1734–1804
x1958-68

Information

Title
View of Messina
Maker
Louis Jean Desprez
Medium
Pen and gray ink and wash, watercolor over black chalk
Dimensions
20.5 x 33.5 cm (8 1/16 x 13 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
Object Number
x1958-68
Place Depicted

Italy, Messina

Inscription
In ink, verso, upper right: Vue du port au de la ville | de Messina, prise a vol | d'ouiseaux, da la maison des | Capucins ou avenue la tremble- | mane de terra de 1783, par | Des Prez [in artist's hand]
Marks/Labels/Seals
Stamp in black, lower right: JM [monogram in circle] [Lugt 1494a]
Culture
French
Type
watercolors, drawings
Materials
laid paper, ink, watercolors
Subject
landscapes (representations), hills, cityscapes, towns, harbors

Jean Masson (1856-1933), stamp (Lugt 1494a); Masson sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris 7-8 May, 1923, lot 59 (illus.); Mathias Komor, New York.

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