Charles Louis Clerisseau 1721-1820 Antic Ruin, Drawing

Charles Louis CLERISSEAU
1721-1820 French
Antic ruin of Italy
Drawing, watercolor and gouache on paper
on the back: aquaduct drawing in ruins, pencil
sheet: 27.5 x 37.5 cm
frame: 47.5 x 58 cm
Very good condition

Charles Louis Clerisseau is a great painter, draftsman and architect. Prix ​​de Rome in 1746 he contributed to the birth of taste "to the antique" which then gave neoclassicism (Louis XVI ...). Much appreciated by the great European courts, Catherine II bought many drawings from Clérisseau today at the Hermitage Museum. He also made a model for the Virginia Capitol at the request of Thomas Jefferson. Also the castle of Rastignac which inspired the White House.
An exhibition was dedicated to him in 1996 at the Louvre.
museums: Louvre, Hermitage ....