Colonade et Jardins du Palais Medicis (Colonnade and Gardens of the Medici Palace), c. 1776

Not on View

Medium

etching and wash-manner printed in yellow, blue, red, and blackon pale green paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within plate mark at top & bottom): 29.1 x 24.4 cm (11 7/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ivan E. Phillips and Jacqueline Getty Phillips

Catalogue Raisonné

Portalis/Beraldi 1880, no. 83

Accession Number

1986.30.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-François Janinet (artist) French, 1752 - 1814

Hubert Robert (artist after) French, 1733 - 1808

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate within and below image: H. Robert pinx; lower right in plate within and below image: F. Janinet sculp.; across bottom in plate: COLONADE ET JARDINS DU PALAIS MEDICIS. / Tire du Cabinet de Mr le Comte de Baudouin, / Brigadier des Armees du Roi, Capitaine aux Gardes Francoises. /

Exhibition History

1990: Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 83, repro.

1994: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, NGA, 2003, no. 37b.

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 37b, as Colonade et jardins du palais Medicis (Colonnade and Gardens of the Palazzo Medici).

Bibliography

1880: Portalis, baron Roger and Henri Beraldi. Les graveurs du dix-huitieme siecle. 2 parts, 3 vols. each part. Paris, 1880.

1930: I.F.F. 1700, vol.12, p.73-74, no.172.

1990: Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990: 83.

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 37b.