Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006216View of the Lac d’Espingo and the Cirque d’Espingo in the Pyrenees
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”
Provenance
Sold, Blanchet & Associés, Paris, Apr. 11, 2018, lot 39. Sold by Galerie Nathalie Motte Masselink, Paris, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc / French, 1814–1879
- Date
- Aug. 21, 1865
- Medium
- Watercolor and opaque watercolor, over graphite, on blue-gray wove paper, laid down on Japanese paper
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Julius Lewis and Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke endowment funds
- Accession no.
- 2019.1266
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