View of Church Interior
date: label: Date
content: 1742–46
name: label: Artist
content: Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778
label: Attributions
content: Jean-Baptiste Lallemand, French, 1716 – 1803
notes: label: Description
content: Depiction of a church interior. The view shown from an oblique angle, depicts a vast, vaulted hall that leads into another, colonnaded hall. A sepulchral monument is positioned above the arched opening (at the transition to the next hall). Numerous sculptures and monuments are positioned in wall niches in the main hall. Three small figures and a dog are standing at center. Additional groups of people are visible in the distance.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-28-444
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown and gray ink, brush and wash, watercolor, black chalk on paper, lined with various sheets of paper with printed text in French
label: Dimensions
content: 16.9 x 39.4 cm (6 5/8 x 15 1/2 in.)