Fountain in a Courtyard, in or before 1768

Not on View

Medium

pen and gray ink and watercolor over graphite on laid paper; graphite and brown ink sketches on verso

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.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

1983.49.150

Artists / Makers

Charles Louis Clérisseau (artist) French, 1722 - 1820

Image Use

upper left verso in pen and brown ink: Clerisseau

Antonio Cesare Poggi (died c. 1836; Lugt 617); Charles Edouard Mewes; Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1983.

Mewes, Charles Edouard
Millard, Mark Jacob
Poggi, Antonio Cesare

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.).