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Architectural Fantasy with Vase, Herm, and Colonnade
Louis-Joseph Le Lorrainmid-18th century
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Ruins of a temple are shown against a curved colonnade visible in the distance. A broken herm in the foreground leans against the base of a sepulchral monument surmounted by an urn. Three figures, one seated on a broken column, are visible among the ruins.
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- Title: Architectural Fantasy with Vase, Herm, and Colonnade
- Creator: Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain
- Creator Lifespan: 1715/1759
- Date Created: mid-18th century
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Brush and gray wash, black chalk on paper with additions across upper and lower margin, lined with cardboard and border of blue paper
- Viewing Notes: Le Lorraine executed many architectural fantasies such as this, that feature temple ruins against a curved colonnade visible in the distance. In the foreground, a broken herm leans against the base of a sepulchral monument that is surmounted by an urn. Three figures are visible among the ruins; one of them is seated on a broken column. In addition to architectural caprices, Le Lorraine designed many projects for classical vases and painted portaits and still life arrangements.
- Signed: Signed in pen and black ink at lower right: LL
- Provenance: Leon Decloux
- Paper Support: Laid paper; additions of paper across upper and lower margins; lined with cardboard; border of blue paper
- Markings: Cooper Union Museum mark at the lower right corner of the rectoCooper Union Museum stamp on the verso
- Exhibitions: CHNDM - Excavating the Vocabulary of Design: 18th Century Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection. [Ground floor gallery], November 4, 2005 - January 8, 2008.In the Antique Taste: Carle Vanloo's Offering to Love. Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1982.Crosscurrents: French and Italian Neoclassical drawings and prints from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, 1978 [see Related Exhibitions]Old Master Drawings from the Cooper Union Musuem. New York, Barnard Vollege, 1963.The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists, Minneapolis, Minn. University of Minnesota, University Art Gallery, 1961.
- Dimensions: 34.7 x 22.5 cm (13 11/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
- Bibliography: In the Antique Taste: Carle Vanloo's Offering to Love. Hartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1982, fig. 5, p. 5, 13. Pierre Rosenberg. "Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (1715-1759)." Revue de l'Art, 1978, pp. 40-41, fig. 26.Crosscurrents: French and Italian Neoclassical drawings and prints from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design. Washington: Published for Cooper-Hewitt Museum by Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, no. 61, p. 76, repr. Old Master Drawings from the Cooper Union Musuem. New York, Barnard Vollege, 1963, no. 17.Richard P. Wunder. Extravagant Drawings of the Eighteenth Century. New York, 1962, no. 39, repr. (as Servandoni) The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists, Minneapolis, Minn. University of Minnesota, University Art Gallery, 1961, no. 85, repr., pl. XIII
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