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The image shows a street view looking up at a large stone church with a tall spire dominating the composition on the right side. The street recedes into the distance, creating a vanishing point where the buildings meet the sky. Delicate pencil strokes give texture and depth to the drawing. People are walking along the street, providing scale against the architecture. The color palette is primarily shades of gray, enhancing the texture and shadow of the elements. Additional buildings and a streetlamp are visible in the background.
National Gallery of Art · Drawing
Apse of St.-Didier, Avignon
F.L. Griggs
- Date
- 1922
- Medium
- graphite on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 42.86 × 27.94 cm (16 7/8 × 11 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 1943.3.4689
- Credit line
- Rosenwald Collection
- Time span
- 1901 to 1925
- Department
- CG-W
Subjects and terms
- British
- exterior
- architecture
- Religious
- Avignon
Provenance
Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; acquired 1943 by the National Gallery of Art
Inscription
lower right in graphite: F.L.GRIGGS; in unknown hand, lower left in brown ink: L'Abside de St.Didier; in later hand, lower right: (mounting instructions)
Watermarks
LVG below fleur-de-lis (Heawood 1743)
NGA object ID 7428. 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.