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The Arch of Constantine Seen from the Colosseum

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Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crisse
1782-1859
1818-38
Oil on paper, mounted to canvas.
11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (292 x 223 mm)
Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009.
2009.400:108
Inscription: 
Signed with the artist's initials and coronet, and dated at right center: T.T / 1818 / 1838.
Provenance: 
Private collection, France; sale [collection of Madame X], Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 25 February 1929, lot 62, as by "T.T."; Talabardon et Gautier, Paris; sale, New York, Sotheby's, 10 November 1998, lot 65, as Turpin de Crissé; Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw, New York.
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School: 
French
Century: 
19th century
Classification: 
Oil Sketch
Department: 
Drawings and Prints