2002.21: Fantasy of Classical Ruins
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2002.21
- People
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Jean-Laurent Legeay, French (Paris c. 1710 - 1790 Rome, Italy?)
- Title
- Fantasy of Classical Ruins
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/146768
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Black ink on antique (?) laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, framing lines in black and brown ink and brown wash
- Dimensions
- 26.6 x 19.1 cm (10 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: black ink, lower left: J. Le Geay Inven
- inscription: verso, graphite: [illegible] / [illegible] Jean Legeay [crossed out] Le Geay / 1732 / 81 [encircled] [arrow to the right] / 12/16 / $MDK / 21 / F8003 / Jean Legeay französ. Architekt Maler & Kupferstecher / 1732 Rompreis
- inscription: verso, blue ballpoint ink, lower right: Jean Legeaÿ, französ. Architekt / Maler & Küpferstecher / 1732 Rompreis / ab 1745 Berlin / 1752 Hofbaudirektor / 6 Blätter Hedwigskirche Berlin
- inscription: verso, black ink, lower right: Jean Le Geaÿ
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Richard P. Wunder, San Diego, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Richard Wunder (1946, Ph.D. 1955) in memory of Agnes Mongan
- Accession Year
- 2002
- Object Number
- 2002.21
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- John Harris, "Le Geay, Piranesi and International Neo-Classicism in Rome 1740-1750", Essays in the History of Architecture Presented to Rudolf Wittkower, ed. Douglas Fraser, Phaidon (London, 1967), p. 193 n. 26
- Richard P. Wunder, "The Spread of 'Piranesism' to France Through Legeay and Challe", Piranèse et les français, colloque, Villa Medici, Académie de France à Rome, ed. Georges Brunel, Edizioni dell'Elefante (Rome, 1978), pp. 553-566, pp. 553-66, fig. 8, repr.
Exhibition History
- Architectural, Ornament, Landscape and Figure Drawings Collected by Richard Wunder, Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury, 01/05/1975 - 02/26/1975
- 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2018 - 05/09/2018
Verification Level
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