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Architectural ruins: the Temple of Augustus at Pola (Pula, Croatia)
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SM P136. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Justin Piperger
Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721 - 1820)
Architectural ruins: the Temple of Augustus at Pola (Pula, Croatia)
c.1757
Bodycolour on paper
Height: 16in
Width: 21.75in
Width: 21.75in
Signed and Dated: Signed Clérisseau bottom centre on fragments of stone
Museum number: P136
On display: Picture Room - inside planes (by arrangement or on some pre-booked tours)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
The pedimented facade of the Roman temple of Augustus is on the left while to the right is the new City Hall (on the site of the Roman Temple of Diana) completed in 1296. Like the temple this survives and is today the Communal Palace of Pula.
There is a Clerisseau drawing of this view in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, dated 1757, inventory no. ОР-11671. It is in gouache, pen and Indian Ink, brush and brown and grey wash and is a simpler composition with fewer and different figures and without the flagpole. Another drawing in the Hermitage shows the rear view of the same temples (ОР-11672).
There is a Clerisseau drawing of this view in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, dated 1757, inventory no. ОР-11671. It is in gouache, pen and Indian Ink, brush and brown and grey wash and is a simpler composition with fewer and different figures and without the flagpole. Another drawing in the Hermitage shows the rear view of the same temples (ОР-11672).
Associated items
P115, same subject
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