DrawingsFrench18th century

Ancient Sacrifice in an Ionic Temple

1757

Artists

Joseph-Marie Vien, the ElderArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black ink and gray-brown wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in brown and black ink and black chalk, blue paper borders adhered to face, laid down on a decorated mount with remnant of a ledger from 1713 on the verso

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

31.4 x 24.9 cm (12 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.)

Provenance

The artist’s estate; his estate sale, Olivier, Paris, 17 May 1809 and the following days, part of lot 52 (as "Young Woman Offering a Sacrifice"), sold; to François Destouches; John Witt Randall, Boston; to his sister, Belinda Lull Randall, Boston, by descent, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall, inv. no. 1898.368

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