Hexagonal Temple in an Italianate Landscape

Hexagonal Temple in an Italianate Landscape by Louis Gustave Taraval

Medium

pen and black ink with watercolor and gray wash within a border drawn in blue watercolor and pen and black ink on laid paper extensively pricked for transfer

Dimensions

image: 34.8 x 55 cm (13 11/16 x 21 5/8 in.) sheet: 37.2 x 57 cm (14 5/8 x 22 7/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

1998.28.3

About the Artist

Louis Gustave Taraval · 17381794

Taraval served as inspector for the Bâtiments du Roi. According to Macmillan, he was influential in the publication of several important architects, including Pierre Contant D'Ivry and Jean François Chalgrin.

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