print
- Museum number
- 1890,0415.212
- Title
- Object: La conspiration de Catilina découverte
- Description
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The discovery of the Catiline conspiracy: frieze with seven figures in classical clothing in a room of neo-classical furniture; on the left, a female figure leaning over the shoulder of Crassus, who is reading the anonymous letter informing him of the conspiracy; in the middle, Marcellus and Metellus listening to Cicero, sitting on the right. 1792
Etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1792
- Dimensions
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Height: 276 millimetres (trimmed)
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Height: 319 millimetres (with border)
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Width: 545 millimetres
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Width: 590 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The subject is from Plutarch's life of Cicero, 109-37. See Gisela Gramaccini, 'Jean-Guillaume Moitte, Leben und Werke', Berlin 1993, cat.172, and 'Regency to Empire', Minneapolis 1985, cat.109. The original drawing is lost.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1890
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1890,0415.212
