Lot number 171 - Auction 142
'DER TOD DES MARCUS ANTONIUS' (NACH POMPEO BATONI)

'THE DEATH OF MARK ANTONY' (AFTER POMPEO BATONI) Paris, Johann Georg Wille, 1778 Engraving on paper. 45.5 x 59 cm (F. 67 x 80.5 cm). Framed behind glass (verso sealed, unopened). Inscr., titled in French and dated, i.a. 'Dedicated to His Imperial Highness Monsignor Paul Petrovich, Grand Duke of all the Russias'. The identical engraving is located in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Browned. Literature: Le Blanc, Charles: Catalogue de L´Oeuvre de Jean Georges Wille, Leipzig, 1847, cat. nr. 4.