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Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Giant figures supporting the lintel, flanked by chairs, from "Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini..." (Diverse Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces...)
1769
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Plate: 9 13/16 x 15 3/16 in. (25 x 38.5 cm) printed horizontally Sheet: 21 7/16 x 15 3/16 in. (54.5 x 38.5 cm)
- Collection no.
- 41.71.1.20(20)
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Giant figures supporting the lintel, flanked by chairs, from "Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini..." (Diverse Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces...). Giovanni Battista Piranesi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style: Giant figures supporting the lintel, flanked by chairs, from "Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini..." (Diverse Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces...) — Giovanni Battista Piranesi. 1769.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Plate: 9 13/16 x 15 3/16 in. (25 x 38.5 cm) printed horizontally Sheet: 21 7/16 x 15 3/16 in. (54.5 x 38.5 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.