Imaginary Classical Landscape

Provenance

Private collector, France; Mortimer Brandt, New York (not in Lugt, with inv. no. 1489); James and Constance Acquavella, Rochester, NY, 1970-1999; private collection, New York; (Galerie Motte Masselink, Paris); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Imaginary Classical Landscape

Chéron, Louis

c. 1700

Accession Number

2017.85.1

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash and white gouache on blue laid paper, laid down on an old mount

Dimensions

sheet: 23.6 × 40.7 cm (9 5/16 × 16 in.) | mount: 33.4 × 50 cm (13 1/8 × 19 11/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Dian Woodner