2023.512: View of the Colosseum from the North

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2023.512

People

Attributed to Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros, Swiss (Yverdon, Switzerland 1748 - 1810 Lausanne)

Title

View of the Colosseum from the North

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Ansicht des Kolosseums von Norden

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1785

Culture

Swiss

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/381003

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and graphite on off-white laid paper

Dimensions

55.2 × 75.5 cm (21 3/4 × 29 3/4 in.)
frame: 76.5 × 97 cm (30 1/8 × 38 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: J Honig & Zoonen

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Private Collection, 2008. [Joseph Fach Galerie, Frankfurt a.M.], sold; to Bernd Schultz, Berlin, 2014, sold [through Grisebach, Berlin, October 25, 2018, lot 19]; to Peter Soriano, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter F. Soriano ’81

Accession Year

2023

Object Number

2023.512

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Ausgewählte Zeichnungen, vorwiegend aus der Goethezeit, auct. cat., Galerie Joseph Fach, pp. 12-13, cat no. 6, repr.
• Sammlung Bernd Schultz: "Abschied und Neuanfang," Auktion zugunsten eines ExilMuseums in Berlin / Bernd Schultz Collection: " A Farewell and a New Beginning," Auction to benefit the "ExilMuseum" in Berlin, auct. cat., Grisebach (Berlin, October 25, 2018), unpag., lot no. 19, repr.

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