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Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721 - 1820)

Architectural ruins, with water

Bodycolour and ink/wash on paper

Height: 16.25in
Width: 23in

Signed and Dated: Clerisseau 1771 [bottom left corner]

Museum number: P65

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. For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit - not all tours show the inside of all planes.

Curatorial note

Clerisseau depicts a barrel-vaulted chamber with the remains of plaster enrichment in the vault, which has caved in leaving the interior open to the sky. There is an arched opening at the far end and a corinthian colonnade to the right.


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