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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Interior of St. Peter's, Rome

Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin
1739-1811

Interior of St. Peter's, Rome

1763
16 1/2 x 11 5/8 inches (419 x 294 mm)
Pen and black ink, gray and brown wash, on paper.
III, 112a

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower left, "chalgrin fecit Rome 1763".
Associated names
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Bibliography
Denison, Cara D. French Drawings, 1550-1825. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, no. 81.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 328.
Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, no. 83, repr.
Denison, Cara, Myra Nan Rosenfeld, and Stephanie Wiles. Exploring Rome : Piranesi and His Contemporaries. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library; Montréal : Centre Canadien d'Architecture, 1993, no. 107, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department