Second View of the Agrigento Countryside, 1778

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Medium

pen and brown and black ink with watercolor and gray wash over graphite on laid paper, with a partial framing line in brown and gray ink

Dimensions

overall: 23.6 x 34.5 cm (9 5/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
support: 31.7 x 33.8 cm (12 1/2 x 13 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Charlottesville/Albemarle Foundation for the Encouragement of the Arts in honor of J. Carter Brown for meritorious contribution to the world of arts

Accession Number

1982.57.1

Artists / Makers

Claude-Louis Châtelet (artist) French, 1749/1750 - 1795

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom on mount in an unknown hand : Seconde Vue prise dans les Campagnes d'Agrigente--; lower right: Chatelet del.; across center verso by the abbé de Saint-Non: Sde Vue prise dans le Campagnes d'Agrigente / Chatelet; in a modern hand in graphite at lower right: 6484/Human and some mathematical calculations

Provenance

(Julius Böhler, Munich). (Hermann Schickman Gallery, New York), 1966. Christian Humann [1929-1981]; (his estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 30 April 1982, no. 49). GIft 1982 to the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Böhler, Julius
Charlottesville-Albemarle Foundation
Humann, Christian
Shickman Gallery, Herman
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1966: Exhibition of Old Master Drawings. H. Shickman Gallery, New York, 1966, no. 58.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 236-239, 290, no. 103b (color, p. 239).

Bibliography

1995: Lamers, Petra. Il viaggio nel sud dell'Abbé de Saint-Non. Il "Voyage pittoresque à Naples et en Sicile": La genesi, i disegni preparatori, le incisioni. Naples, 1995: 174, no. 131a, reprod. 173, fig. 131a.