Ruine d'une Gallerie Antique de Rome, 1796

Not on View

Medium

color etching and wash manner on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 43.5 × 59 cm (17 1/8 × 23 1/4 in.)
plate: 31.2 × 40.2 cm (12 5/16 × 15 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

IFF no. 390

Accession Number

1945.5.73

Artists / Makers

Laurent Guyot (artist/publisher) French, 1756 - 1808

Hubert Robert (artist after) French, 1733 - 1808

Colnaghi (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, below image, at left: Robert Pinxit; in plate, below image, at right: Guyot sculpsit; in plate, below image, at center: Ruine d'une Gallerie Antique de Rome / Gravé d'apres le Tableau d'Hubert Robert Peint a Rome Tiré de la Collection de son ami K. La Rochel / London Colnaghi & C No 32 Pall Mall AParis chez Guyot Graveur Rue de la Monnoye No 20; at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: 2d4 [?]; verso: at upper left, in graphite, in later hand: 5/; at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: B25034; at lower right, in graphite, in later hand: 887 / Pair YEX

Marks and Labels

recto: circle with shield [?] stamped in black at lower left (not in Lugt); verso: National Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1962: Prints of the 17th and 18th Centuries, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME, 1962, no. 33.

Bibliography

2010: Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 66.