drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1836,0109.68
- Description
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Entrée de Loùqssor (Luxor), one of two studies for Plate 50 of the artist's 'Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte', 1802; entrance to the temple, an obelisk (incised with hieroglyphs) and head and shoulders of colossal sculpture on either side, figures seated and standing near the foreground
Pen and grey ink, grey wash
- Production date
- 1802 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 232 millimetres
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Width: 168 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Engraved by Louis-Pierre Baltard for Denon's 'Voyage...' (there is no copy of the book the Department. The B.L. copy is at 458.h.12). The right-hand obelisk shown in Denon's drawing is now in the place de la Concorde in Paris.
Lit.: P. Rosenberg (ed.), exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 'Dominique-Vivant Denon: l'oeil de Napoléon', 1999, no. 105
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1999/2000 Oct-Jan, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Denon 1747-1825
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte
- Acquisition date
- 1836
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1836,0109.68
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: CC,04.68
