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  • image Adam vol.57/155

Reference number

Adam vol.57/155

Purpose

Capriccio of a strigillated sarcophagus at the foot of two columns with entablature.

Aspect

Perspective

Inscribed

Inscribed in ink 155

Signed and dated

  • Undated, probably 1755 or 1756.

Medium and dimensions

Pencil, pen, brown and grey washes; double framing lines in ink , within square framing lines in pencil.(2 sheets, joined vertically)169 x 170; within a circle of 160 dia.

Hand

Charles-Louis Clérisseau (attributed to)

Notes

This drawing is on two joined pieces of paper; the left-hand side, which is in pencil, is unfinished. The ink framing lines have been inscribed after the two sheets have been joined. The attribution of the drawing to Charles-Louis Clérisseau is based on comparable roundels of classical capricci in The Hermitage (see Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820) Dessins du musée de l'Ermitage Saint-Petersbourg, catalogue of exhibition in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1995, p.145). There are several similar, smaller watercolour compositions in Adam vol. 56 with a sarcophagus theme (for example, see Adam vol.56/121 by Robert Adam).

Level

Drawing

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