Vue d'Aqua Pendente sur la route de Sienne a Rome, 1773

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.8 x 35 cm (10 3/16 x 13 3/4 in.)

sheet: 26.8 x 36.2 cm (10 9/16 x 14 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel

Catalogue Raisonné

Boissieu 1878, no. 70, State vii/vii

Accession Number

2000.7.5

Artists / Makers

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (artist) French, 1736 - 1810

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in sky: DB 1773; across bottom of plate: Vue d'aqua pendente Sur la Route de Sienne a Rome / Monsieur Le Duc de Rouchefoucault Pair de France / Par son tres humble & tres obeissant serviteur Jean Jacque D.B.

Provenance

Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel, Washington D.C.; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Smyth-Ravenel Fund, Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P.

Exhibition History

2000: Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

Bibliography

1878: Boissieu, Alphonse de. J.J. de Boissieu, catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Rapilly; and Lyons: Auguste Brun, 1878.