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  • image Adam vol.26/126

Reference number

Adam vol.26/126

Purpose

Record drawing of part of a frieze showing an half-putto holding a rosette and facing a vase; on the left of the putto is elaborate foliage and rosettes. Detail of part of a border of stylised foliage at bottom.

Aspect

Elevation

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1760 - 1763

Medium and dimensions

Red chalk 200 x 413

Hand

Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (attributed to)

Notes

This drawing can be compared with the compositions by Nicolas-François-David Lhuiller (d.1793) in Adam vol.26/103 and 104, with the difference that no animal appears in this composition; the border detail is also similar. The source for this drawing may be the Temple of the Sun in the Colonna gardens, Rome (see Adam vol.26/52 and 69; see also H. d'Espouy, Fragments d'Architecture Antique (2 vols., Paris, 1905), p.54).

Level

Drawing

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