L'Ordre Corinthian, in or before 1768

Not on View

Medium

pen and gray ink and gray wash over graphite on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection

Accession Number

1983.49.151

Artists / Makers

Charles Louis Clérisseau (artist) French, 1722 - 1820

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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

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.).