An Architectural Capriccio
French School
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1750 - 1799
Materials
Pen and grey washes with blue watercolour on paper
Measurements
670 x 860 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Osterley Park and House, London
NT 267149
Summary
Pen and grey washes with blue watercolour, An Architectural Capriccio, French School, 18th century. The nearest comparison of this picture lies with the Piranesi-inspired fantastic designs of two Frenchmen with scholarships at the French Academy in Rome in the 1760s: Louis-François Petit-Radel (1740-1818) and Lambert-François Cammas (1742-1804).
Provenance
Mrs Bernard Smith; purchased by Colnaghi's, 23 May 1958 (£30); purchased by Brinsley Ford, 15 January 1959 (£60) 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
French School, artist possibly Louis-François Petit-Radel (Paris 1740- Paris 1818), artist possibly Lambert François Thérèse Cammas (Toulouse 1743 - Toulouse 1804), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Mauro Antonio Tesi (Montalbano 1730 - Bologna 1766), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Charles Michel-Ange Challe (Paris 1718 - Paris 1788), artist
References
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, RBF188 Garnett 2015: Oliver Garnett, At Home with Art Treasures from the Ford Collection at Basildon Park, National Trust, 2015, p. 24