L'Ordre Corinthian
in or before 1768
Artist, French, 1722 - 1820
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and gray ink and gray wash over graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 39.5 x 25.3 cm (15 9/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
page size: 42.5 x 27.7 cm (16 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1983.49.151
Associated Artworks
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Casino Farnese on the Palatine Hill, Rome
Joseph-Marie Vien
1744
The Forno inside the Walls of the Vatican
Joseph-Marie Vien
1744
Villa d'Este, Tivoli
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
Exhibition History
2019
Thomas Jefferson Architect: Palladian Models, Democratic Principles, and the Conflict of Ideals, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, 2019-2020.
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
various notations overall; by later hand, lower right in pen and brown ink: L'ordre Corinthien / à Vienne En Dauphiné / Dessiné d'apres l'antique / à Vien (erased) par Clerisau.; by later hand, upper center verso in pen and brown ink: Dessine en Dauphiné; illegible french inscription by later hand, upper left verso in pen and brown ink
Wikidata ID
Q64538712