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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Elevation of a Catafalque with royal Crown and Order of the Golden Fleece, for a Duke of Lorraine, probably Leopold (d. 1729)

around 1729
Pen, brown ink and gray wash
51.8 × 34.3 cm (20.4 × 13.5 in)

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