Citation
"View of the Villa Medici, Rome; verso: Sketches of a basin and the capital and base of a column (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres) , 1961.9,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Nov 17, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/296907.
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The drawing in graphite on white paper depicts a city of low buildings with tile roofs. At the left of the page is a four story villa atop a prominent hill. The villa has windows with shutters and a tile roof topped by paired cupolas. A series of walls connect to the villa on the bottom left of the page. To the right of the villa the city sweeps between the hill and a mountain range behind, its architectural motifs reflecting that of the villa, though some buildings are much longer with several prominent towers. A river or promenade cuts between buildings on the right.