Architectural Fantasy with Fountain and Obelisk

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrainca. 1745

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

A fountain, an obelisk, and a statue of a horse are shown against parts of a colonnade. Enlarged at the bottom and at left by the artist who wrote his signature in one of th eparts surrounding the fountain. Strips of paper have been added to the top and bottom of the drawing.

Details

Title: Architectural Fantasy with Fountain and Obelisk
Creator: Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain
Creator Lifespan: 1715/1759
Date Created: ca. 1745
Type: drawing
Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
Medium: Black chalk, brush and gray wash on off-white laid paper
Paper Support: off-white laid paper
Exhibitions: Rome, IT - Académie de France à Rome, Piranese et les Piranesiens francais, May 11 - November 15, 1976. Also traveled to Musee des Beaux-Arts de Dijon and Hotel Sully a Paris (n. d. given).New York, NY - Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, Five Centuries of Drawing: the Cooper Union Centennial Exhibition, 1959-1961.
Dimensions: 34.9 x 22.4 cm (13 3/4 x 8 13/16 in.)Mat: 55.9 x 40.6 cm (22 x 16 in.)
Bibliography: Rosenberg, Pierre, "Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (1715-1759)," Revue de L'Art, 40-41 (1978), fig. 27.

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