Italian Country House Beside a Road
Medium
Pen and black ink, gray wash over black chalk
Dimensions
9 11/16 x 14 9/16 in. (24.6 x 37 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc. Gift, 1986
Accession Number
1986.212
Tags
Art Historical Context
Jean-Baptiste Lallemand’s *Italian Country House Beside a Road* invites viewers into a tranquil rural scene rendered with delicate precision. The drawing captures a stone house nestled among trees, framed by a simple gate and winding path—elements that evoke the quiet charm of the Italian countryside. Created in pen and black ink gray wash over black chalk, the work demonstrates Lallemand’s skill at using light and shadow to suggest depth and atmosphere within a compact format. As an 18th-century French artist who traveled extensively in Italy, Lallemand often produced such drawings to record...