DrawingsFrench18th century

Mountainous Landscape with a Volcano

1776

Artists

Claude-Louis ChateletArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Gray and black-ink wash and white opaque watercolor with traces of black chalk on blue laid paper, adhered to cream card

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

21.8 x 28 cm (8 9/16 x 11 in.)

Provenance

Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox, Ltd., London; Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Boston (inv. no. D-F-52); Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, inv. no. 1999.12

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