Panoramic View across a Terraced Park
1780/1790
Artist, French, 1739 - 1806

Artwork overview
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Medium
gouache and watercolor over graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 31 x 46.4 cm (12 3/16 x 18 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1963.15.20
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Richard Owen, Paris (Listed as ‘by tradition M. Coindet, First Secretary of Necker’ [1]); purchased 1935 by Samuel H. Kress, New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art.
[1] No information was found on neither Monsieur Coindet, nor Necker.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1978
Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 89.
1985
Landscape Drawings from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985.
1990
Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 79, repro.
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 250-251, 291, no. 109 (color).
Bibliography
1977
Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 346, dK385, fig. 315.
Inscriptions
initialed by the artist in brush and gray wash on the stone wall at left: LM; and again in brush and black wash in the foliage at lower left, LM (now almost invisible)
Wikidata ID
Q64593408