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Pyramid of Cestius.

Pyramid of Cestius.

After the original by G. P. Pannini.
Engraving, etching. 326 x 385.
Under the image, on the left: Jean Paul Pannini Pinx.; on the right: E. C. Femme Lempereur Sculp.; in the center: LA PYRAMIDE DE SEXTIUS. Dediée A Madame le Comte; below: Par son très humble et très obeissant serviteur Lempereur. A Paris chés Lempereur Graveur du Roy, rue de la Harpe, vis-à-vis la rue Serpente. Tableau tiré du Cabinet de Madame le Comte, d’un pied et demi de haut sur 2. p. de large.
Inv. G 459.
Literature: Le Blanc, t. 2, p. 531, No. 3.
Lempereur, Louis Simon (1728, Paris – 1807, Paris) – engraver, member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. His first wife was the engraver Catherine-Elisabeth Lempereur, the second was Térèse-Charlotte Boitel.
Pannini, Giovanni Paolo (1691, Piacenza – 1765, Rome) – Italian artist, teacher and architect.

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