Pilgrims in Front of the Porta Santa at Saint Peter's, ca. between 1752 and 1756

  • Augustin Pajou, French, 1730-1809

Pen and black ink and brush and gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper

  • Sheet: 7 1/16 × 4 13/16 inches (17.9 × 12.2 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, Charles L. Freer Fund and Elliott T. Slocum Fund

54.454.A

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower right: d'après Nature | à Rome Inscribed, in pen and black ink, lower left: de la por[ta] Sainte

Michel Benisovich (New York, New York, USA)

1954-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors. Cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1992, p. 219, no. 104. Rosenberg, Pierre, trans. Catherine Johnson. French Master Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in North American Collections. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto and London, 1972, p. 191.

Augustin Pajou, Pilgrims in Front of the Porta Santa at Saint Peter's, ca. between 1752 and 1756, pen and black ink and brush and gray wash over black chalk on cream antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, Charles L. Freer Fund and Elliott T. Slocum Fund, 54.454.A.