View of the Lac d’Espingo and the Cirque d’Espingo in the Pyrenees

Provenance

Sold, Blanchet & Associés, Paris, Apr. 11, 2018, lot 39. Sold by Galerie Nathalie Motte Masselink, Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

View of the Lac d’Espingo and the Cirque d’Espingo in the Pyrenees

Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc

Aug. 21, 1865

Accession Number

250923

Medium

Watercolor and opaque watercolor, over graphite, on blue-gray wove paper, laid down on Japanese paper

Dimensions

Primary support: 28.4 × 46.7 cm (11 3/16 × 18 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 29.5 × 47.7 cm (11 5/8 × 18 13/16 in.)

Classification

drawings (visual works)

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Julius Lewis and Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke endowment funds