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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1991.160
People
Charles-Michel-Ange Challes, French (Paris 1718 - 1778 Paris)
Title
Interior of the Colosseum with a Sleeping Soldier
Other Titles
Former Title: Landscape with a Soldier Sleeping Amidst Ancient Ruins
Former Title: Landscape with Roman Ruins and Sleeping Figure
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1747
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/294149

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, adhered to tan antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink
Dimensions
31.5 x 45.5 cm (12 3/8 x 17 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, black ink: MA [struckthrough] Challe [underlined]. 1747
  • watermark: none visible: drawing is laid down
  • inscription: signed and dated, lower left, black ink: MA [struckthrough] Challe [underlined]. 1747
  • inscription: verso, graphite, lower right: 618
  • inscription: verso, graphite, lower left: TL.10727.3
  • inscription: verso, graphite, lower center: 12 1/2 x 18
  • collector's mark: lower left, black ink: PC [intertwined]
  • collector's mark: lower left, red ink: LsD ["s" in superscript]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles-Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel, Paris and Bellême (his mark, L.2073, lower left, black ink); Louis Delatigny, Rouen (his mark, L.1768a, lower left, red ink); his sale, Paris, Drouot, 4-5 November 1937, lot 66; Agnes Mongan, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1991, inv. no. 1991.160

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Agnes Mongan
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
1991.160
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century French Drawings & Prints with a Selection of Drawings by J.A.D Ingres, checklist, Archer M. Huntington Gallery (Austin, 1977), checklist no. 6, n.p.
  • Louis-Antoine Prat and Laurence Lhinares, La collection Chennevieres: quatre siècles de dessins français, Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2007), cat. no. T. 106, pp. 572-73 (as location unknown)

Exhibition History

  • Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century French Drawings & Prints with a Selection of Drawings by J.A.D. Ingres, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, Austin, 02/06/1977 - 03/20/1977

Verification Level

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