View of a fountain beyond a colonnade, with two figures
Drawing
| Artist/Maker |
A view of a formal, Italianate garden is seen through flanking porticoes of a colonnade, with pendant statues of female figures. At centre two figures stand at a balustrade surrounding a basin being filled by water-spouting lions. Beyond a formal hedge, a palazzo crowned by statues can be seen on the left.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Title | View of a fountain beyond a colonnade, with two figures (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over red chalk. |
| Brief description | Drawing, View of a fountain beyond a colonnade, with two figures, Isaac de Moucheron (attributed to), Dutch School |
| Physical description | A view of a formal, Italianate garden is seen through flanking porticoes of a colonnade, with pendant statues of female figures. At centre two figures stand at a balustrade surrounding a basin being filled by water-spouting lions. Beyond a formal hedge, a palazzo crowned by statues can be seen on the left. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed on verso, in graphite: at lower left corner, 717; and along the lower edge, I. de Moucheron. Eine der Ansichten d. Parkes in Heemstede, welche M. auch gestochen hat. |
| Object history | Freiherr Carl Rolas du Rosey (d. 1862), Dresden (L. 2237 at lower left);1 Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805–80), Vienna;2 sale, London, Sotheby’s, 7–10 December 1920, lot 490; F.R. Meatyard (dealer), London; from whom purchased by the museum (L. 2503 on verso), 6 June 1921 for £4. 17s. 6d. |
| Bibliographic reference | Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2014), vol. 1, cat. 139, p. 189 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.784-1921 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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