Perspective View of the Interior of a Metropolitan Church
1780/1781
Artist, French, 1728 - 1799
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with gray and brown wash over graphite on laid paper, with framing line in brown chalk
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 59.4 x 83.9 cm (23 3/8 x 33 1/16 in.)
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Accession
1991.185.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
E. Terry; J. Kugel, 1972; Lodewijk Houthakker, Amsterdam, 1990; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, Ltd., 1991; purchased by NGA, 1991
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1974
Franse tekenkunst van de 18e eeuw uit Nederlandse verzamlingen, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1974, 26-27, 132-133, no. 19.
1982
Le Temple. Représentations de l'architecture sacrée, Nice, Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall, 1982, no. 230.
1986
A New World: Neo-Classical Drawings from the Collection of Lodewijk Houthakker, Oberlin, Allen Memorial Art Museum, 1986, no. 19.
1992
Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, 3 (reprod.), 37-39, 46, no. 42.
2000
Art for the Nation:Collecting for a New Century, NGA, Washington, D.C., 2000, 196.
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 246-247, 290-291, no. 107 (color).
Bibliography
1979
Monnier, Geneviève, et al., Le Dessin. Geneva, 1979: 140-141.
1989
Fuhring, Peter. Design into Art: Drawings for Architecture and Ornament, the Lodewijk Houthakker Collection. 2 vols. London, 1989, 2: 802.
1994
Pérouse de Montclos, Jean-Marie. Étienne-Louis Boullée. Paris, 1994: 123, 249-250, reprod. 125, fig. 126.
1997
Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 102-103, fig. 25.
2010
Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 67.
Wikidata ID
Q64560024