View of the Lac d’Espingo and the Cirque d’Espingo in the Pyrenees

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc

Title

View of the Lac d’Espingo and the Cirque d’Espingo in the Pyrenees

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1865

Medium

Watercolor and opaque watercolor, over graphite, on blue-gray wove paper, laid down on Japanese paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed and dated lower left, in graphite: “Lacs glacés 21 août 65”; verso, center left, in graphite: “28.3 x 46.5”; lower left, in graphite: “Lacs glacés 21 août 55 / E. Viollet le Duc”

Dimensions

Primary support: 28.4 × 46.7 cm (11 3/16 × 18 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 29.5 × 47.7 cm (11 5/8 × 18 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Julius Lewis and Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke endowment funds

Reference Number

2019.1266

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