Project for a Country Villa
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1765–70
name: label: Circle of
content: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, French, 1736 – 1806
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: A rendering of a country house (villa). The building is presented from an oblique angle and set against a cloudy sky. It is elevated on a high podium of rusticated masonry. The two story main block has a hexastyle portico and attic, one story wings laterally with aedicule framings at the central of their three windows. The central colonnade is of Doric order. On the attic level, six statues are displayed, positioned on the facade, between round windows. Trees and bushes are depicted in front of the house, especially towards the edges of the sheet. Several figures scattered across the foreground.
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: 1911-28-99
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 black ink, brush and watercolor, black chalk on paper, lined
label: Dimensions
content: 27 x 49 cm (10 5/8 x 19 5/16 in.)