The Fishpond at Villa Madama

1746/1749

Joseph-Marie Vien

Artist, French, 1716 - 1809

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 16.2 x 22 cm (6 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
    page size: 42.5 x 27.7 cm (16 3/4 x 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1983.49.171

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

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 138-140, 283, no. 60a (color).

Bibliography

1988

  • Gaehtgens, Thomas W. and Jacques Lugand. Joseph-Marie Vien Peintre du Roi (1716-1809). Paris, 198:, 132-133, no. 17a (the album; all drawings repr.).

1990

  • Méjanès, Jean-François, in Acquisitions, 1684-1989. Exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Cabinet des dessins. Paris, 1990: 81, under no. 116 (the album).

1993

  • Wiebenson, Dora, and Claire Baines. The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, Volume I, French Books Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. Washington,1993: 120-121, no. 53 (the album).

Wikidata ID

Q64591474

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