A Rocky Hillside with Dead and Dying Trees

Adolphe Etienne Viollet-Le-Duc II

Artist, French, 1817 - 1878

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with graphite on tan wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 27.5 x 20.6 cm (10 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.245

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York, by 1978); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1978; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 176 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in pen and brown ink: Dessin de Viollet Le Duc,/architecte; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: [mounter's notes]

Wikidata ID

Q64533393

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