Architectural Fantasy: A Courtyard
date: label: Date
content: 1742–46
name: label: Designer
content: Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto:
label: Description
content: Horizontal rectangle. A palace courtyard, bounded by a two-storied building at the rght and an open colonnade in the background. At the left is a fountain showing a basin held aloft by standing figures. Ruined masonry in the left foreground. A tomb at the extreme right. Figures introduced into the scene.
label: Description
content: Verso:
label: Description
content: Rough sketch of a building or street scene. Undecipherable notes (in pencil) in French, below.
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: 1911-28-445
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and brown ink with chinese ink wash; verso: pencil and black chalk
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 19.7 × 25.8 cm (7 3/4 × 10 3/16 in.)