Church of Sant' Onofrio, Rome
1775/80
Artist, French, 1748 - 1825
Artwork overview
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Medium
gray wash over black chalk on pale blue laid paper, the wash extending onto the album page at left and right
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 16.7 x 21.5 cm (6 9/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
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Accession
1998.105.1.vv
Associated Artworks
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Roman Album No. 4: Italian Landscapes and Antiquities
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Women at an Altar
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Estate of the artist (sale, Paris, 17 April 1826, under no. 66; withdrawn); Mme. David (sale, Paris, 11 March 1835, under no. 16); purchased by one of David's pupils, Mlle. X (name obliterated);[1] by descent in her family; (Bruno de Bayser, Paris); purchased 1998 by NGA.
[1] According to inscription on flyleaf.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 256-258, 260, no. 112c (color).
Bibliography
2002
Rosenberg, Pierre, and Louis-Antoine Prat. Jacques-Louis David, 1748-1825: Catalogue raisonné des dessins. 2 vols. Milan, 2002, 1: no. 636.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: du Sens contraire; by later hand on album page at left: Eglise de Saint Onophre / en Janicule; lower left: paraphes of E.D. and J.D.
Wikidata ID
Q64580191