The Ponte Molle
Louis Gabriel Blanchet (1705 - 1772)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Black chalk heightened with white on grey [faded from blue] paper
Measurements
340 x 518 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 267142
Summary
Black chalk drawing heightened with white on grey [faded from blue] paper, The Ponte Molle by Louis Gabriel Blanchet (1705-1772). A view of the Ponte Molle (Milvio) over the Tiber, Rome.
Provenance
Sotheby's 22 November, 1954; Colnaghi's from whom purchased by Brinsley Ford, 15 January for £25 (with four others) and by descent to Augustine Ford. Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government from Augustine Ford and allocated to the National Trust for Osterley, 2023.
Makers and roles
Louis Gabriel Blanchet (1705 - 1772) , artist
References
The Art of Claude Lorrain, Arts Council, Hayward Gallery, London, Hayward Gallery, London, 7 November to 14 December 1969, 167 France in the eighteenth century (winter exhibition), Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1968, 24 Ford 1998 Brinsley Ford, John Ingamells, Francis Russell, John Christian, Nicholas Penny, Jennifer Montagu, Howard Coutts, Timothy Wilson & Dudley Dodd, The Ford Collection – II, Walpole Society, Vol. 60, 1998, pp. 91-376, RBF157 Garnett 2015: Oliver Garnett, At Home with Art Treasures from the Ford Collection at Basildon Park, National Trust, 2015, pp.16-17