Architectural Fantasy with a Pyramidal Mausoleum

c. 1747

Charles Michel-Ange Challe

Artist, French, 1718 - 1778

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 20.6 x 27.7 cm (8 1/8 x 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.6.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Walter C. Baker; (sale, New York, Sotheby's, 21 January, 1983); (purchased by Gallerie Cailleux, Paris); purchased by NGA, 1986.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1960

  • The Walter C. Baker Collection of Drawings. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1960.

1985

  • Oeuvres de Jeunesse de Watteau à Ingres, Galerie Cailleux, Paris, June-July, 1985, no.4.

Bibliography

1962

  • Virch, Claus. Master Drawings in the Collection of Walter C. Baker. 1962, no. 75 (a later catalogue for the 1960 Met exhibition which was accompanied only by an article the Museum's Bulletin).

Wikidata ID

Q64538735

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