Arches of the Larger Baths at Hadrian's Villa

c. 1748

Charles Michel-Ange Challe

Artist, French, 1718 - 1778

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk and white chalk with stumping on light brown laid paper, with later framing line in brown ink

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 30.5 x 47.5 cm (12 x 18 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1999.19.2


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection, Paris; (Galerie Cailleux, Paris) (sale, Christie's, New York, 28 January 1999, no. 126); (David Tunick, Inc., New York); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • Le rouge et le noir: Cent dessins français de 1700 à 1850. Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 1991, no. 47 (Marianne Roland Michel).

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 142-143, 283-284, no. 61 (color).

Inscriptions

lower left in pen and brown ink: MA Challe

Watermarks

posthorn (similar to Heawood 2621)

Wikidata ID

Q64538738


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