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Travelers in the Interior of the "Temple of Mercury" at Baiae

Charles-Louis Clérisseau
1721-1820

Travelers in the Interior of the "Temple of Mercury" at Baiae

ca. 1761
10 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (268 x 471 mm)
Opaque watercolor on paper.
1985.62

Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Julius Fleischmann, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Klein, and Mrs. Richard Rogers.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
A related view in pen and brown ink and wash, but without the figure of the artist at the right, in the Hermitage, identifies the subject, which is likely to have been executed in 1761, when Clérisseau accompanied James Adam to Naples.
Associated names
Scott, Jonathan, former owner.
Fleischmann, Julius, Mrs., donor.
Klein, Walter, donor.
Klein, Walter, Mrs., donor.
Rogers, Richard, Mrs., donor.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 329.
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. 87, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department