View of the tombs, Pompeii
Original Language TitlePompeii: vue des tombeaux
Artist
Firmin-Eugène Le Dien
(French, 1817 - 1865)
Artist
Gustave Le Gray
(French, 1820 - 1884)
Date1853
MediumSalt print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 5/16 × 12 5/8 inches (23.65 × 32.07 cm)
Mount: 13 3/4 × 19 1/8 inches (34.93 × 48.58 cm)
Mount: 13 3/4 × 19 1/8 inches (34.93 × 48.58 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.135
SignedSigned with artist’s stamp on image recto, lower right, in black ink: “LE DIEN / ET / GUSTAVE LE GRAY"
InscribedInscribed on mount recto, lower left, in pencil: “Pompeii”;
Inscribed on mount recto, lower right in pencil: “Vou des tombeaux”.
MarkingsOn image recto, lower right, in negative: “3”;
On mount recto, upper right, in pencil: “6” [circled];
On mount recto, lower right corner, in pencil: “X”;
Numbered on mount verso, upper right, in pencil: “31”.
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of a cobblestone pathway next to row of small tombstone structures with trees lined behind. Small pillars and low stone fence divide the tombstones.Exhibition HistoryRotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29, 2019- August 25, 2019, no cat.
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
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Clarence John Laughlin
February 9, 1941; printed 1950
2005.27.1715
