Vue du Tombeau de Virgile from Differentes vues dessiné d'après nature... dans les environs de Rome et de Naples
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 6 11/16 × 9 1/4 in. (17 × 23.5 cm) Sheet: 9 11/16 × 12 15/16 in. (24.6 × 32.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1991
Accession Number
1991.1010.3(2)
Tags
Art Historical Context
"Vue du Tombeau deile" (View of the Tomb of Virgil) is a captivating th-century etching from the *Differentes vues dessiné d nature... dans les environs Rome et de Naples*. This collaborative print features drawings by renowned French artists Hubert Robert and Jean Honoréagonard, with etching likely by Adélaide Allou and publishing by Pierre François Basan Robert, a master of picturesque landscapes and romanticized ruins, and Fragon, celebrated for his Rococo elegance, capture the ancient tomb near Naples—a site long attributed to the Roman poet Virgil—in exquisite detail. Created during the ...
About the Artist
Adélaide Allou|Hubert Robert|Jean Honoré Fragonard|Pierre François Basan (French|French|French|French) · 1776 |1733 |1732 |1723 –1800 |1808 |1806 |1797
French, active 1776–1800|French, Paris 1733–1808 Paris|French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris|French, Paris 1723–1797 Paris (?)