About the Artwork
Landscape with a Classical Temple, after Claude
between late 18th and early 19th century
Luigi Gasparini
1779-1814
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown-gray ink and wash with brush and black ink over graphite on buff antique laid paper
Sheet: 8 9/16 × 11 5/16 inches (21.7 × 28.7 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1SDR124.2
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower right corner: Luigi Gasparini fecit Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper left: 410 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper left center: E.I.R. Inscribed, in pencil, verso, upper right: Gasparini Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right: 124 Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower right: 40c-
Watermark: D&C Blauw under an escutcheon (Churchill 329)
Provenance
J.J. Peoli (New York, New York, USA)
May 8, 1894, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) no. 281. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 302-303, no. A52.
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Luigi Gasparini, Landscape with a Classical Temple, after Claude, between late 18th and early 19th century, pen and brown-gray ink and wash with brush and black ink over graphite on buff antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR124.2.
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