Vue d'une ruine près Chantilly (View of a Ruin near Chantilly)

c. 1772

Mademoiselle Le Roy

Artist, French, 18th century

Francoise Basset

Publisher, French, active c. 1785 - active 1792

Mademoiselle Le Roy, after Louis Le Sueur

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk-manner printed in red on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Katharine Shepard Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.2 × 41.2 cm (11 1/2 × 16 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 32.9 × 47 cm (12 15/16 × 18 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2020.37.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Didier Martinez, Paris); (Joel R. Bergquist Fine Arts, Nashville, TN, 2012); purchased by NGA in 2020.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: 1.2; in plate, below image, at left: Dessiné d'après nature par le Sueur; in plate, below image, at right: Gravé par Mlle Le Roy.; in plate, below image in center: Vue d'une Ruine près Chantilly / A Paris chez Basset, rue Jacques, No. 670

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