drawing;
architectural drawing
- Museum number
- 1972,U.845
- Description
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Château de Gaillon, elevation of the 'Maison Blanche', a magnificent garden pavilion, showing six arches of the colonnade, with ornate balcony above, the pillars of which are surmounted by busts
Pen and black ink with grey wash; on vellum
- Production date
- 1570 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 515 millimetres
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Width: 744 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of seven drawings (on six sheets) on the Château de Gaillon drawn by Du Cerceau for this album; see 1972,U.793 for comment on whole series.
For further comment see Boudon/Mignot, 'Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau', Paris 2010, pp.124-135.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Printed Books.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1972,U.845
