Fountain in a Courtyard
in or before 1768
Artist, French, 1722 - 1820
Charles Louis Clérisseau
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and gray ink and watercolor over graphite on laid paper; graphite and brown ink sketches on verso
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 24.5 x 17.1 cm (9 5/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
page size: 42.5 x 27.7 cm (16 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1983.49.150
Associated Artworks
See all 54 artworksAlbum of Drawings of Rome and the Surrounding Countryside
Joseph-Marie Vien, Charles Louis Clérisseau
1744
Casino Farnese on the Palatine Hill, Rome
Joseph-Marie Vien
1744
The Forno inside the Walls of the Vatican
Joseph-Marie Vien
1744
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Antonio Cesare Poggi (died c. 1836; Lugt 617); Charles Edouard Mewes; Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1983.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1988
Gaehtgens, Thomas W. and Jacques Lugand. Joseph-Marie Vien Peintre du Roi (1716-1809). Paris, 1988, 132-133, no. 17a (all Vien drawings repr.)
1993
Wiebenson, Dora and Claire Baines. The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, Volume I, French Books Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. Washington, DC, 1993, no. 53 (1983.49.187 repr.).
Inscriptions
upper left verso in pen and brown ink: Clerisseau
Wikidata ID
Q64538711