1962.21: Capriccio of the Villa La Rotunda in Vicenza

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1962.21

People

Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to Hubert Robert, French (Paris 1733 - 1808 Paris)

Title

Capriccio of the Villa La Rotunda in Vicenza

Other Titles

Former Title: An Italian Villa

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296712

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red chalk counterproof on cream antique laid paper, laid down on tan laid paper, framing line in black ink

Dimensions

28.3 x 35.9 cm (11 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Marian H. Phinney, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962, inv. no. 1962.21

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Marian H. Phinney

Accession Year

1962

Object Number

1962.21

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 21, n.p. (as Hubert Robert)
• Pierre Rosenberg and Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Panopticon italiano: un diario di viaggio ritrovato, 1759-1761, Edizioni dell'Elefante (Rome, 1986), under cat. no. 240, p. 393

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

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