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Ruin Fantasy
Louis-Joseph Le Lorrainca. 1762
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Statues and columns stand on the top of a city fountain in front of a ruined classical building. A colonade is visible in the background and in the left foreground, a overturned barrel is visible in the shadows. The sheet has additions at top and bottom, and along the left and right sides.
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Details
- Title: Ruin Fantasy
- Creator: Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain
- Creator Lifespan: 1715/1759
- Date Created: ca. 1762
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Brush and black and gray wash, black chalk on cream laid paper
- Viewing Notes: Le Lorraine's style is associated with the 'gout grec', or Greek taste,a term that refers to the rebirth of classical design elements among the French artists working in the circle of Piranesi. In this architectural caprice, Statues and columns stand on the top of a city fountain in front of a ruined classical building. Le Lorraine was an accomplished etcher who worked with Piranesi in the Palazzo Mancini, which was situated across the Palazzo from the French Academy.
- Provenance: From the collection of Leon Decloux
- Paper Support: Cream laid paper
- 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.Rome, Italy - French Academy in Rome, "Piranese et les Piranesiens francais" May 11 - November 15, 1976 traveled to Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, [no dates available]; Hotel Sully à Paris [no dates available].
- Dimensions: Overall sheet size with additions: 34.9 x 23.2 cm (13 3/4 x 9 1/8 in.)Mat: 55.9 x 40.6 cm (22 x 16 in.)Original Sheet size: 26.8 x 21.4 cm (10 9/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Rosenberg, Pierre. "Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (1715-1759)", Revue de L'Art, 40-41 (1978) fig. 25.
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