Arches of the Larger Baths at Hadrian's Villa, c. 1748

Not on View

Medium

black chalk and white chalk with stumping on light brown laid paper, with later framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

overall: 30.5 x 47.5 cm (12 x 18 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1999.19.2

Artists / Makers

Charles Michel-Ange Challe (artist) French, 1718 - 1778

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in pen and brown ink: MA Challe

Provenance

Private collection, Paris; (Galerie Cailleux, Paris) (sale, Christie's, New York, 28 January 1999, no. 126); (David Tunick, Inc., New York); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Christie's
Galerie Cailleux
Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

1991: Le rouge et le noir: Cent dessins français de 1700 à 1850. Galerie Cailleux, Paris, 1991, no. 47 (Marianne Roland Michel).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 142-143, 283-284, no. 61 (color).