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View of the Casino dell'Aurora at the Villa Ludovisi in Rome seen from the gardens, with a cart beside a small rustic cottage; in the foreground are two figures.
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Reference number
Adam vol.56/153
Purpose
View of the Casino dell'Aurora at the Villa Ludovisi in Rome seen from the gardens, with a cart beside a small rustic cottage; in the foreground are two figures.
Aspect
Perspectiveverso diagram
Inscribed
Inscribed in ink on right border of mount 17; in red ink 153.
Signed and dated
- Undated, probably 1756.
Medium and dimensions
Pencil, pen, black chalk, grey washes, oxidised lead white highlighting; ink framing line, beyond which is blue painted border259 x 382
Hand
Jean-Baptiste Lallemand
Verso
Chalk diagram
Watermark
fleur de lys in circle
Notes
This drawing is one of a set of six Roman views (Adam vol.56/149-154) by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand (1716-1803), all of which have contemporaneous painted borders and have central folds, and most of which are signed. There were several similar sets in the Adam sales of 1818 and 1821 (see Catalogue of A Valuable Collection of Antique Sculpture etc. R. Adam, Christie's, London, 21 & 22 May 1818 and Christie's London Catalogue of the Effects of Robert Adam Esq. Dec. 9 July 1821 & following days). Lot 32 of the second day sale of 1818 was described as 'Six elegant drawings in India ink by L'Alma, of Italian Garden scenery', and lot 29 contained several of Lallemand's landscapes, all of which were bought by John Soane (see Bolton The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, 2 vols. (London, 1922), II, p.331). The set was probably made in 1756 for Robert Adam, at the time when he described himself as '... applying myself to these kind of sketches and have already made out a dozen of different views as unlike one another as I could ...' (Fleming Robert Adam and His Circle in Edinburgh & Rome (London, 1962), p.363). As is evident from the Adam sales, Lallemand made several views of villas and their gardens, which Robert Adam owned (see Bolton The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, 2 vols. (London, 1922), vol.II, pp.331, 335). A drawing in the garden of the same villa is found in Adam vol.56/150.
Literature
Rep. Tait Robert Adam: drawings and imagination (Cambridge, 1993), p.21, fig.16
Level
Drawing
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