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  • image Adam vol.57/79

Reference number

Adam vol.57/79

Purpose

Italy: Rome: ? Villa Mattei Celimontana. View of a two-storied villa with pitched roof and chimneys and various outbuildings raised on a buttressed wall, with garden and pavilions adjoining a circular church with projecting portico.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 79

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen on grey paper; pencil framing line124 x 224

Hand

Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (attributed to)

Notes

This may be a view of the Villa Mattei Celimontana in Rome seen from the south, with possibly S. Stefano Rotondo in the distance (see I. Barsali, Ville di Roma: Lazio, Milan, 1970, p.385). There is a similar oblong view on grey paper in Adam vol.57/118 that is in the same hand.

Level

Drawing

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