A Ruin on a Hillside

1766–1844

Medium	brush and gray ink and gray wash on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 10 7/16 x 14 15/16 in. (26.5 x 37.9 cm)
Object Number	1955.1900
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Jean-Antoine Constantin, A Ruin on a Hillside, 1766–1844, brush and gray ink and gray wash on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1900

Select Bibliography

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965.

Provenance

Marquis Ph. de Chennevières (L. 2073; sale Paris, Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs, April 4–7, 1900, no. 86);* Louis Delatigny (L. 1768a; sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, November 22–23, 1937, one of nos. 106–108); Paul Prouté, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1938). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.