Prosper Marilhat
Study for “Beneath the Archway”
1830
Physical Qualities
Watercolor over graphite, with scraping, on paper, Sheet: 172 × 120 mm. (6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)
Image: 172 × 118 mm. (6 3/4 × 4 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of the Print & Drawing Society, in Celebration of the Acquisition of the George A. Lucas Collection
Object Number
1998.144
View through an archway on either side of which is a fluted Corinthian column. A group of three men stands to the left in front of the archway; another group stands on the far side of the arch in the background. Cityscape visible in distance.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1998; David and Constance Yates, New York.
Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston and Cheryl K. Snay, "The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas," The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, circulated to The Walters Art Museum June 19, 2005- September 11, 2005, The Birmingham Museum of Art February 9, 2006-May 4, 2006, Tacoma Art Museum June 9, 2006-September 7, 2006.
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 290-93, ill.
Inscribed: None.
