Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Execution Scene

Italian School
19th century

Execution Scene

10 3/4 x 15 1/4 inches (273 x 387 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over graphite, on paper.
1981.48

Bequest of Mrs. Ernest Ash.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in black chalk, at upper left, "à la [indecipherable] / punition / de mort Papale / à Rome.-- / par / Antonio Reffo"; also in black chalk, at lower left, "Grottune - Roma -"; on the verso, in graphite, at lower center, "Bücke".
Associated names
Glaser, Curt, 1879-1943, former owner.
Ash, Ernest, Mrs., former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 266.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department