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Drawing, Triumphal arch in honor of the emperor
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Giuseppe Barberi and architect: Giuseppe Barberi. It is dated After 1804 and we acquired it in 1938. Its medium is pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on blue-white laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
The drawing may relate to Napoleon’s commission to Barberi for a grandiose rebuilding of the Piazza della Scala, Milan. The project was never executed.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund.
Its dimensions are
22.8 x 34.8 cm (9 x 13 11/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Verso: Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration (Lugt#457d)
It is inscribed
Inscribed: NAPOLEONI PRIMUS IMPERATOR.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Triumphal arch in honor of the emperor; Designed by Giuseppe Barberi (Italian, 1746–1809); Italy; pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on blue-white laid paper; 22.8 x 34.8 cm (9 x 13 11/16 in.); Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund; 1938-88-1195
