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Landscape with the Construction of a Classical Temple

(Italian (Roman), 1596–1669)
1630s
Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over black chalk
DimensionsSheet: 25.7 × 41.7 cm (10 1/8 × 16 7/16 in.)
Framed: 51.4 x 66 cm (20 1/4 x 26 in.)
Credit LineCharles Potter Kling Fund
Accession number2000.996
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
ProvenanceAlfred Normand (b. 1910 - d. 1993), Paris (Lugt 153c); July 6, 1999, consigned by the heirs of Alfred Normand, Christie's, London, lot 116, sold to Spink-Leger Pictures, London; 2000, sold by Spink-Leger to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 13, 2000)
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