The Cathedral at Trani
1778
Artist, French, 1743 - 1804
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and gray-black ink and watercolor over graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 21.5 x 35.2 cm (8 7/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
support: 31.2 x 44.8 cm (12 5/16 x 17 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1963.15.6
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Richard Owen, Paris; Samuel H. Kress 1935; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1972
French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; and New York Cultural Center, 1972, no. 42, pl. 120 (Pierre Rosenberg).
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 236-238, 290, no. 103a (color).
Bibliography
1810
possibly M. Bénard. Cabinet de M. Paignon Dijonval, état détaillé et raisonné des dessins et estampes dont il est composé.... Paris, 1810: under no. 4058 (61 watercolor landscapes and views by Desprez).
1939
Wollin, Nils G. Desprez en Suède. Stockholm, 1939: 355, no. 14.
1977
Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 349, dK386, fig.320.
1995
Lamers, Petra. Il viaggio nel sud dell'Abbé de Saint-Non. Il "Voyage pittoresque à Naples et en Sicile": La genesi, i disegni preparatori, le incisioni. Naples, 1995: 220, no. 201c, reprod. 219, fig. 201c (mislabeled "201").
Inscriptions
in unknown hand, across bottom in brown ink on mount: Vue de la Place publique et de l'Eglise de Trani, près de Barletta, dans la Pouille.; at lower right in the same hand: Des Prez del.; verso, inscribed by the abbé de Saint-Non in pen and brown ink: Vüe de La place publique de l'Eglise de Trani/prè de Barletta dans La Pouille/dessinée par Des Préz
Wikidata ID
Q64594017