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The image shows classical columns to the left, with trees in the background. The brushstrokes create texture and depth in the greenery and architecture. The color palette consists of muted browns, grays, and greens. Plants and gourds are at the base of the columns. Vine-like plants climb the structure. A figure is leaning over a basin of water or fountain towards the right side.
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The image shows classical columns to the left, with trees in the background. The brushstrokes create texture and depth in the greenery and architecture. The color palette consists of muted browns, grays, and greens. Plants and gourds are at the base of the columns. Vine-like plants climb the structure. A figure is leaning over a basin of water or fountain towards the right side.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

Architectural Fantasy of Roman Ruins with an Inscription Plaque

Jean-Baptiste Lallemand

Date
c. 1768
Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 32.2 × 23 cm (12 11/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2016.65.1
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1751 to 1775
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • exterior
  • architecture
Provenance

Pütz? (not in Lugt, see inscription). (sale, Artcurial, Paris, 18 February 2015, no. 47); (Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Inscription

recto: in brown ink, on stone at right: DE; verso: by later hand, lower right in brown ink: Pütz(?) peintre du duc des Deux Ponts(?)

Marks

none

NGA object ID 205641. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.