A Draftsman in the Capitoline Gallery
about 1765
- Medium
- Red chalk, mounted
- Dimensions
- 45.7 × 33.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-203911
An artist sits drawing in an ancient sculpture gallery. Light streams in from the left, where the gallery is open to a courtyard. During the eighteenth century young artists flocked to Rome from all over Europe to study the monuments of antiquity and the Renaissance. This red chalk drawing depicts the Capitoline Museum, a gallery of ancient sculpture which opened in Rome in 1734 and quickly became a *de facto* classroom for aspiring artists. The figure of the draftsman is likely Robert himself. His choice to place the draftsman surrounded by monumental sculptures, creates a sense of the overwhelming effect of the ancients on eighteenth-century artists.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about 1765 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — drawings
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