Charles Rémond
View of the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine from the Palatine
c. 1822-2428.6 x 38.7 cm
Oil on paper, laid down on canvas
Signed lower left: Rémond.
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
Provenance
Probably the artist's sale, “Ventes d’études peintes en Italie, en France et en Suisse,” Hôtel des ventes, Paris, 21-23 February 1842, nr. 65 under “Rome et ses environs,” as “Vue de l’Arc de Constantin, prise du palais des empereurs, for Fr 60 to Boilly
probably Louis-Léopold Boilly, Paris, 1842–d. 1845
his posthumous sale, 8 bis, rue Saint-Benoît, Paris, 31 January 1845, nr. 45, one of three "études de paysages, d'après nature" by Rémond, this painting to Hazard
probably Hazard
with Neal Fiertag, until 1990; sold on 21June to Whitney
Wheelock Whitney III, New York (from 1990)
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