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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
    Metric: 191 x 244 mm
    Imperial: 7 1/2 x 9 5/8 in.
    Collection
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven. To license images click here
    Accession Number
    B1977.14.5745
    Wilson Online Reference
    D233
    Exhibited
    Tercentenary 2014 (25)
    Provenance
    Iolo Williams; Paul Mellon
    Signature/inscription
    Inscribed by the artist in black chalk, lower centre: 'in the Villa Medici'
    Critical commentary
    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
    Bibliography
    Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 222

    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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