drawing
- Museum number
- 2001,0519.32
- Description
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Monsieur Denon visiting the Cabinet des Antiques Berlin; Denon examining a tray of gems (or casts of gems), a man beside him peering over his shoulder, another man seated at a desk writing; on cabinet small maquette of the Laocoön group (from the Vatican), to the right a statue of Cupid and Psyche and on floor many portrait busts and various Greek and Egyptian artefacts. 1807
Pen and black ink, with brown wash
- Production date
- 1807
- Dimensions
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Height: 224 millimetres
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Width: 292 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This drawing is a version of a drawing exhibited in the Denon exhibition, 1999-2000, Paris, Louvre, Dominique-Vivant Denon (142)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2019-2020 22 Nov-25 May, Berlin, Deutsches Historiches Museum, Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt
- Acquisition date
- 2001
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2001,0519.32
