DrawingsFrench17th century

Panorama of the Vatican from the Dome of St. Peter's

1641

Artists

Israël SilvestreArtist

Description

on three sheets of cream antique laid paper: first join at 23 cm from the left edge; second join 44.5 cm further to the right

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite, gray and brown wash, and watercolor over traces of black chalk on three joined pieces of cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper

Culture

French

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

33.5 x 113.5 cm (13 3/16 x 44 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Montagu Henry Edmund Cecil Towneley-Bertie, 8th Earl of Abingdon and 13th Earl of Lindsey, London and Gilmilnscroft House, East Ayrshire; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 17 July, 1935, part of lot 5; Colnaghi, London (by 1935); Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Boston, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hofer, inv. no. 1961.7

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