Ruins at a Lake

A pencil drawing on paper shows a ruined stone building with broken walls and arched openings rising beside trees and a range of hills. A smaller ruined structure stands at left, and a flat, pale expanse of water fills the foreground under a sky of loose clouds.

Artist

Eugène Edouard Soulès

Date

ca. 1840

Medium

Graphite on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)

Size

2592 × 1680 px

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