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Landscape with Roman Ruins

Landscape with Roman Ruins

(French, 1736–1793)
(French, 1703–1770)
(French, 1736–1793)
about 1773-1789
Medium/TechniqueCrayon manner in sanguine
DimensionsSheet: 18.5 × 21.9 cm (7 5/16 × 8 5/8 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit LineGift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession numberK4372
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsLower left, in plate: Boucher inven. Lower left, in plate: A Paris, chez Bonnet, rue St. Jacques. Lower right, in plate: Bonnet Sculp. Verso, upper right, in graphite: 1084 / 2.5[0] Verso, center, in graphite, in the hand of Sylvester Koehler: L. M. Bonnet Verso, lower right, in graphite: (6765) 4732 [crossed out] / 344 [crossed out] / rh [?] / sc
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA.

NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.