1991.160: Interior of the Colosseum with a Sleeping Soldier

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1991.160

People

Charles-Michel-Ange Challes, French (Paris 1718 - 1778 Paris)

Title

Interior of the Colosseum with a Sleeping Soldier

Other Titles

Former Title: Landscape with a Soldier Sleeping Amidst Ancient Ruins
Former Title: Landscape with Roman Ruins and Sleeping Figure

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1747

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294149

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, adhered to tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink

Dimensions

31.5 x 45.5 cm (12 3/8 x 17 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: lower left, black ink: MA [struckthrough] Challe [underlined]. 1747
• watermark: none visible: drawing is laid down
• inscription: signed and dated, lower left, black ink: MA [struckthrough] Challe [underlined]. 1747
• inscription: verso, graphite, lower right: 618
• inscription: verso, graphite, lower left: TL.10727.3
• inscription: verso, graphite, lower center: 12 1/2 x 18
• collector's mark: lower left, black ink: PC [intertwined]
• collector's mark: lower left, red ink: LsD ["s" in superscript]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel, Paris and Bellême (his mark, L.2073, lower left, black ink); Louis Delatigny, Rouen (his mark, L.1768a, lower left, red ink); his sale, Paris, Drouot, 4-5 November 1937, lot 66; Agnes Mongan, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1991, inv. no. 1991.160

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Agnes Mongan

Accession Year

1991

Object Number

1991.160

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century French Drawings & Prints with a Selection of Drawings by J.A.D Ingres, checklist, Archer M. Huntington Gallery (Austin, 1977), checklist no. 6, n.p.
• Louis-Antoine Prat and Laurence Lhinares, La collection Chennevieres: quatre siècles de dessins français, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2007), cat. no. T. 106, pp. 572-73 (as location unknown)

Exhibition History

• Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century French Drawings & Prints with a Selection of Drawings by J.A.D. Ingres, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, Austin, 02/06/1977 - 03/20/1977

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