View of the Villa Medici and Sta Trinità dei Monti from Ingres's Studio in the Pavillon San Gaetano, Rome
- Medium
- Graphite on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 28.6 × 27.5 cm (11 5/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- Graphite
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
graphiteprints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
A pupil of Jacques-Louis David and of the landscape painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, Michallon wasthe first to be awarded the Prix de Rome for historical landscape in 1817. He studied at the French Academy in Rome between 1818 and 1821; this view from Ingres’s famous studio sports a still life of the artist’s shaving equipment, hairbrush, and painter’s box.
