View Within the Colosseum, Rome

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Artist: Charles Michel Ange Challe (French, Paris 1718–1778 Paris)
Date: 18th century
Medium: Black chalk, heightened with white on gray-blue paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink. Verso: faint black chalk sketch of an arch
Dimensions: 10 7/8 x 16 5/16 in. (27.6 x 41.4 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1985
Accession no.: 1985.43

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Farmyard
Charles Michel Ange Challe
mid-18th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019090
An Architectural Capriccio; a View Through a Great Arch with an Obelisk in a Piazza in the Middle Distance
Charles Michel Ange Challe
18th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020865
Architectural Fantasy
Charles Michel Ange Challe
18th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00021166

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.