Ruin Fantasy with Classical Columns and Figures

A brush drawing in black and gray wash shows a fallen classical colonnade, with broken columns and a heavy entablature leaning over a shadowed foreground. A seated man, a standing statue on a pedestal, and small figures near a stone urn sit among the rubble, with an arcade receding at right.

Artist

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain

Date

ca. 1762

Medium

Brush and black, gray wash, black chalk on cream laid paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

2033 × 2999 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum