Louis Jean DesprezFrench, 1743–1804Chimaera
May one see it?
Unknown
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
The architect and set designer Desprez favoured theatrical depictions. Here he offers a free interpretation of a chimera, a hybrid mythological creature, which he turns into a three-headed desert monster hunting for food in front of a run-down palace in North Africa. The partly digested carcass of its last victim still sticks out of its ribcage and the ground is littered with animal remains.
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- RP-P-2018-3844
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
