The Colosseum, Rome
Medium
Pen and brown ink, watercolor, heightened with white
Dimensions
17 1/2 x 26 in. (44.4 x 66 cm.)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mrs. Carl L. Selden Gift, in memory of Carl L. Selden, 1987
Accession Number
1987.173
Tags
About the Artist
Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros · 1748–1810
Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros, born on July 21, 1748, in Moudon, Switzerland, was the son of Jean-Rodolphe Du Cros, a writing and drawing master who taught at Yverdon College after the family relocated there. Destined initially for commerce following his father's death in 1764, Ducros pursued art passionately. He trained for two years (1769–1771) under Chevalier Nicolas-Henri-Joseph de Fassin at a...