Vue d’une Ruine près St. Maur-les-Paris (View of a Ruin near St. Maur-les-Paris)

c. 1772

Mademoiselle Le Roy

Artist, French, 18th century

Francoise Basset

Publisher, French, active c. 1785 - active 1792

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk-manner printed in red on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Katharine Shepard Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.2 × 41.1 cm (11 1/2 × 16 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 33.1 × 47 cm (13 1/16 × 18 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.37.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Didier Martinez, Paris); (Joel R. Bergquist Fine Arts, Nashville, TN, 2012); purchased by NGA in 2020.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower center in image: LLesueur; upper left in plate: 3.e; upper right in plate: a.; in plate, below image, at left: "Dessiné d'après nature par le Sueur; in plate, below image, at right: Gravé par Mlle Le Roy; below image in center: Vue d’une Ruine près St. Maur-les Paris / A Paris chez Basset, rue Jacques, No. 670

Watermarks

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