Album of Drawings of Rome and the Surrounding Countryside
1744/1750
Artist, French, 1716 - 1809
Artist, French, 1722 - 1820
Artwork overview
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Medium
album with 53 black chalk and graphite sketches and 1 watercolor (first two in volume by Clerisseau, remaining by Vien)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 42.5 x 27.7 cm (16 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.)
overall size (volume closed): 43.5 x 29.3 x 1.7 cm (17 1/8 x 11 9/16 x 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1983.49.150-203
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
Exhibition History
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 138-141, 283, no. 60a-e.
Bibliography
1988
Gaehtgens, Thomas W. and Jacques Lugand. Joseph-Marie Vien Peintre du Roi (1716-1809). Paris, 1988: 132-133, no. 17a (the album; all drawings repr.)
1990
Méjanès, Jean-François, in Acquisitions, 1984-1989. Exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des dessins. Paris, 1990: 81, under no. 116 (the album).
1993
Wiebenson, Dora and Claire Baines. The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, Volume I, French Books Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. Washington, 1993: no. 53 (the album; 1983.49.187 repr.).
Inscriptions
on third folio (the first with drawings by Vien) in graphite at upper right: Etudes par Clerisseau