Simon Denis
View on the Quirinal Hill, Rome
180029.5 x 41 cm
Oil on paper laid down on canvas
Signed, dated, inscribed, and numbered on verso (obscured by lining): Peint à Rome en 1800 – 66 – Sn Denis
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Whitney Collection, Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003
Literature
Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 4
Provenance
with Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener, Paris, 1979, sold to Hazlitt
with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1979, sold in October to Whitney
Wheelock Whitney III, New York, from 1979