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Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721 - 1820)
Architectural ruins
1771
Gouache on paper
Signed and Dated: Clerisseau 1771 [lower left]
Museum number: P209
On display: Picture Room
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
Note: identified 2011 as the Clerisseau that should hang to left of the big Canaletto (lower of two) – visible in views.
Provenance
Unknown but must have been in Soane's collection by c.1809 when it was copied by his son John Soane junior (according to the inscription on the copy, SM 91/1/4).
Literature
J. Soane, Description, 1832, p.xii
Helen Dorey, 'The Historic Framing and presentation of watercolours, drawings and prints at Sir John's Museum', in ed. Nancy Bell, Historic Framing and Presentation of Watercolours and Prints, Proceedings of the Conference of the Institute of Paper Conservation June 1996, pp. 20-31
Helen Dorey, 'The Historic Framing and presentation of watercolours, drawings and prints at Sir John's Museum', in ed. Nancy Bell, Historic Framing and Presentation of Watercolours and Prints, Proceedings of the Conference of the Institute of Paper Conservation June 1996, pp. 20-31
Associated items
91/1/4, copy
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