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Record drawing of a decorated vault showing in the centre a male face in relief surrounded by four rosettes in foliage.
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Reference number
Adam vol.26/68
Purpose
Record drawing of a decorated vault showing in the centre a male face in relief surrounded by four rosettes in foliage.
Aspect
Ceiling plan
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1760 - 63
Medium and dimensions
Pencil and black chalk
Hand
Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)
Notes
There is a similar drawing of a vault also attributed to Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (d.1793) in Adam vol.26/48, which shows a comparable figure and rosette composition (see also Adam vol.26/130). Adam vol.26/48 is annotated as deriving from the 'Villa Medicis' and this drawing may have a similar provenance. It can also be compared with the vault soffit shown in A. B. Desgodetz, Les Édifices Antiques de Rome, Paris, 1682 (see the 1779 reprint, p.72, pl.111). There are smaller versions of the composition in a similar hand in Sir John Soane's Museum, SM 129/130 and 145.
Level
Drawing
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