A Corner of the Colosseum, 1820

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Medium

pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

overall: 18.2 x 24.9 cm (7 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Very Reverend and Mrs. Charles U. Harris

Accession Number

2000.65.5

Artists / Makers

Friedrich Olivier (artist) German, 1791 - 1859

Image Use

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Inscription

by the artist, lower left in brown ink: Rom / Sonntags den 27sten Februar 1820. / Prdgt. EIW NAM EID LEBIB. / UZ NESEL EBAH. / TXET. Vom Cananäischen Weibe. / Ein Stück des Collisseums. (Rome, Sunday the 27th February. The text read out of the Bible was the Canaanite Woman. A piece of the Colosseum.) by the artist, lower left in graphite: Sonntag den 27 Prgt (remainder undeciphered); by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Fol. VICX (?)

Provenance

Private collection, Germany; Berlin art market; (sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 20 May 1995, no. 1235, pl. XXXIX); (C.G. Boerner Inc., New York); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.

Bibliography

1996: C.G. Boerner Inc. Neue Lagerliste. New York, 1996: no. 32.

1999: C.G. Boerner Inc. Neue Lagerliste 111. New York, 1999: no. 15.