Dood van Cleopatra, Johann Georg Wille, after Caspar Netscher, 1754

Title(s)

Dood van Cleopatra
Mort de Cléopatre

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-56.159

Catalogue reference

• LeBlanc (Wille) 5-1(4)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Artist

• print maker: Johann Georg Wille
• after design by: Caspar Netscher

Place

Paris

Dating

1754

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving / etching

Measurements

height 403 mm × width 298 mm

What

• death of Cleopatra: she commits suicide by holding to her breast an asp, which she has taken from a basket of figs

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Jean Georges Wille, graveur, avec une notice biographique, p. 8-9, cat.nr. 5