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Joseph Michael Gandy ARA (1771 - 1843)

View of the Breakfast Room in a Villa at Ealing built by Sir John Soane in the years 1801-3

1802

Watercolour on paper

Museum number: P95

Not on display

Curatorial note

This drawing is the pair to P94, another design perspective for interiors at John Soane's own country villa at Ealing, Pitzhanger Manor. Like its pair, it was produced before the completion of the Manor and its status as a design rather than an as-executed view is perhaps hinted at by the theatrial stage curtains with which the scene is framed. Both views feature Soane's beloved wife, Eliza, in the distance engaged in household tasks.

Exhibition history

John Soane Architect: Master of Space and Light, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 11 September - 3 December 1999; Centro Palladio, Vicenza, April - August 2000; Hôtel de Rohan, Paris, January - April 2001; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 16 May - 3 September 2001; Real Academia des Bellas Artes, Madrid, October - December 2001


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