Alexandre Benois
1870-1960
The Italian Embassy in Paris
1954
10 9/16 x 15 3/8 inches (268 x 390)
Watercolor on paper.
2009.21
The Joseph F. McCrindle Collection.
© Alexandre Benois / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Notes
This brightly rendered view features the interior of the Italian Embassy in Paris, located in the eighteenth-century Hôtel de Boisgelinon on the rue de Varenne.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower left in pencil, "Grande halle de Spectacle dans / l'Ambassade d'Italie (rapporte d'un ci devant v chateau en Sicile);" Inscribed at the right in pencil, " 1. X. 1954."
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Century Drawings
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