About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)
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Title
- Is Descartes an American?
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1930–1935
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Medium
- Graphite on cream wove tracing paper, discolored to tan
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, in graphite: "DESCARTES / EST – IL /AMERICAIN?"; verso, lower right, in graphite: "La Ville.radieuse /Le Corbusier"
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Dimensions
- 27.2 × 21.1 cm (10 3/4 × 8 5/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Bequest of Hedwig B. Schniewind
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Reference Number
- 1963.463
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / FLC
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