Second View of the Agrigento Countryside
1778
Artist, French, 1749/1750 - 1795
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown and black ink with watercolor and gray wash over graphite on laid paper, with a partial framing line in brown and gray ink
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 23.6 x 34.5 cm (9 5/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
support: 31.7 x 33.8 cm (12 1/2 x 13 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1982.57.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Julius Böhler, Munich). (Hermann Schickman Gallery, New York), 1966. Christian Humann [1929-1981]; (his estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 30 April 1982, no. 49). GIft 1982 to the National Gallery of Art.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1966
Exhibition of Old Master Drawings. H. Shickman Gallery, New York, 1966, no. 58.
1983
Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., May 1983.
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 236-239, 290, no. 103b (color, p. 239).
Bibliography
1995
Lamers, Petra. Il viaggio nel sud dell'Abbé de Saint-Non. Il "Voyage pittoresque à Naples et en Sicile": La genesi, i disegni preparatori, le incisioni. Naples, 1995: 174, no. 131a, reprod. 173, fig. 131a.
Inscriptions
across bottom on mount in an unknown hand : Seconde Vue prise dans les Campagnes d'Agrigente--; lower right: Chatelet del.; across center verso by the abbé de Saint-Non: Sde Vue prise dans le Campagnes d'Agrigente / Chatelet; in a modern hand in graphite at lower right: 6484/Human and some mathematical calculations
Wikidata ID
Q64540152