Fountain in a Courtyard
in or before 1768
Artist, French, 1722 - 1820

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and gray ink and watercolor over graphite on laid paper; graphite and brown ink sketches on verso
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 24.5 x 17.1 cm (9 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
page size: 42.5 x 27.7 cm (16 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1983.49.150
Associated Artworks
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Casino Farnese on the Palatine Hill, Rome
Joseph-Marie Vien
1744

The Forno inside the Walls of the Vatican
Joseph-Marie Vien
1744

Villa d'Este, Tivoli
Joseph-Marie Vien
1744
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Antonio Cesare Poggi (died c. 1836; Lugt 617); Charles Edouard Mewes; Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1983.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1988
Gaehtgens, Thomas W. and Jacques Lugand. Joseph-Marie Vien Peintre du Roi (1716-1809). Paris, 1988, 132-133, no. 17a (all Vien drawings repr.)
1993
Wiebenson, Dora and Claire Baines. The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, Volume I, French Books Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. Washington, DC, 1993, no. 53 (1983.49.187 repr.).
Inscriptions
upper left verso in pen and brown ink: Clerisseau
Wikidata ID
Q64538711