View of the Gardens of Villa Medici, Michel-Martin Drolling, 1811 - 1816

Identification

Title(s)

View of the Gardens of Villa Medici
Gezicht op de tuinen van Villa Medici

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-5001

Inscriptions / marks

name: ‘COROT.... Droling, 435.. , Y. M. d... Conte...’
number: ‘5562’
label: ‘Dickinson, London’
title: ‘Michel Martin Drolling 1786-1851 Le jardin de la villa de Medici’

Description

Gezicht op de tuinen van de Villa Medici te Rome (de Franse Academie), met in de verte de Villa Borghese en het in 1843 vernietigde Acqua Felice aquaduct.

Creation

Artist

painter: Michel-Martin Drolling

Place

Rome

Dating

1811 - 1816

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Technique

painting

Measurements

height 48.4 cm × width 61.5 cm

Subject

What

Where

Villa Medici

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery

Acquisition

purchase 2008

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Inv.; …; anonymous sale [section 'l’Ancienne Collection Joanny Benoît Peytel' (1844-1929, Paris)], Paris (Christie’s), 22 June 2006, no. 67, € 258,400;{According to the online catalogue.} purchased from the dealer Simon C. Dickinson by the museum, 2008

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

Maestà di Roma da Napoleone all'unità d'Italia : d'Ingres à Degas : les artistes français à Rome, Olivier Bonfait, p. 54, 160, 178, 282, 286, 442-444
Le grand prix de peinture : les concours des Prix de Rome de 1797 à 1863, Philippe Grunchec, Jacques Thuillier, p. 19, 141, 144, 146, 148, 149
Paul Joseph Gabriël (1784-1833) : revitalizing Dutch sculpture in the early nineteenth century, Margreet Boomkamp, p. 333, afb. 3
Keuze uit de aanwinsten, p.489-490, afb.
F. Monod, L’Exposition centennale de l’art Français organisée a Saint-Pétersbourg, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (1912), nr. 1, p. 309 (vermeld als Corot)
Correspondentie tussen vader (Martin) en zoon (Michel Martin) Drölling, aanwezig in het Department des Arts graphiques in Musée du Louvre (L1 t/m L68)
Documentatiemap SK

Persistent URL

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