Hexagonal Temple in an Italianate Landscape, c. 1780

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with watercolor and gray wash within a border drawn in blue watercolor and pen and black ink on laid paper extensively pricked for transfer

Dimensions

image: 34.8 x 55 cm (13 11/16 x 21 5/8 in.)

sheet: 37.2 x 57 cm (14 5/8 x 22 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

1998.28.3

Artists / Makers

Louis Gustave Taraval (artist) French, 1739 - 1794

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: dessiné par Taraval Lejeune; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 250; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: [undeciphered]; on backing of old frame (now discarded): Coll J Masson / Connétable Albert de Luynes

Provenance

A member of the d'Albert de Luynes family; Jean Masson [1856-1933] (Lugt 1494a), Amiens and Paris; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 1998, no. 172, as French School, 18th Century); purchased (through P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd.) 1998 by NGA.

Associated Names

Albert de Luynes family
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Masson, Jean
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 244-245, 290, no. 106 (color).

Bibliography

2010: Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 67.