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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.134
People
Claude-Louis Chatelet, French (Paris 1752 - 1794 Paris)
Title
View of the Ruins of the Antique Theater of Syracuse in Sicily
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Vue des restes de l'antique theatre de Syracuse en Sicile
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298330

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and watercolor over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, framing line in black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
Dimensions
26 × 41 cm (10 1/4 × 16 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, beneath title: Vue des restes de l'antique théâtre de Syracuse, Chatelet

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Smithson. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.134
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 599, fig. 304

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