# Sacrificial Offering in a Temple

By [Giovanni Battista Piranesi](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/artists/giovanni-battista-piranesi.md>), after 1750.

## Details

- Medium: pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions: Sheet: 14.3 x 9.1 cm (5 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.); Secondary Support: 15.3 x 10.4 cm (6 x 4 1/8 in.)
- Collection: [Cleveland Museum of Art](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/galleries/gallery-36a1fc18d246201d.md>)

[View collection record](<https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.259>)

- Categories: Works on Paper
- Styles: [Baroque](<https://art.jpamorgan.com/styles/baroque.md>)

## Image

![Loosely drawn figures gather beneath soaring temple architecture in a vertical brown ink and wash study.](<https://api.art.jpamorgan.com/artifacts/source-36a1fc18d246201d-f9fc7b8ef1797778/full.jpg?v=8f7c568cfa522888cedd56eadb0197cbf93f24e4fd9ef3dfaa2a0cd69e1942f9>)

## Sources & credits

- The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1953.259. Dudley P. Allen Fund. CC0 Open Access.
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Cleveland Museum of Art

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