Architectural Fantasy

Quick Overview

Artist: Charles Michel Ange Challe (French, Paris 1718–1778 Paris)
Date: 18th century
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, gray and black wash. Creased vertically down the center.
Dimensions: 16 7/8 x 26 1/4 in. (42.9 x 66.6 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1979
Accession no.: 1979.572

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Farmyard
Charles Michel Ange Challe
mid-18th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019090
View Within the Colosseum, Rome
Charles Michel Ange Challe
18th century · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019091
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

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