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Sculpted Plinth in the Villa Medici (Ancient Altar in the Villa Medici)
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Sculpted Plinth in the Villa Medici (Ancient Altar in the Villa Medici)
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Artist
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
Title
Sculpted Plinth in the Villa Medici (Ancient Altar in the Villa Medici)
Date
c.1753-54 (undated)
Medium
Black chalk, brown wash, stump and white gouache on medium, moderately-textured, blue-grey laid paper
Dimensions
191 x 244 mm
Dimensions
7 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
Accession Number
B1977.14.5745
Wilson Online Reference
D233
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Tercentenary 2014 (25)
Tercentenary 2014 (25)
Provenance
Iolo Williams; Paul Mellon
Iolo Williams; Paul Mellon
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Inscribed by the artist in black chalk, lower centre: 'in the Villa Medici'
Inscribed by the artist in black chalk, lower centre: 'in the Villa Medici'
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While in Rome Wilson lived close to the Villa Medici on the Pincian Hill so the inscription is likely to be accurate. This altar remains unidentified and is not to be found among the sculpture from the Villa Medici now in Florentine collections. Wilson often included antiquities of this kind in the foreground of his Roman landscapes.
While in Rome Wilson lived close to the Villa Medici on the Pincian Hill so the inscription is likely to be accurate. This altar remains unidentified and is not to be found among the sculpture from the Villa Medici now in Florentine collections. Wilson often included antiquities of this kind in the foreground of his Roman landscapes.
Previous Cat/Ref Nos
Object ID: 15046
Object ID: 15046
Bibliography
Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 222
Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 222
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Exhibitions
New Haven, Yale Center for British Art & Cardiff, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, 6 March - 29 October 2014
Biographies
Paul Mellon, 1907-1999
Iolo Williams, 1890-1962
Documents
Martin Postle & Robin Simon,
Richard Wilson and the Transformation of European Landscape Painting
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