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A sketchbook page featuring a graphite and watercolor drawing of a French country city. The right half of the image is left unfinished, with only a few graphite marks placed.

Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Page from a Sketchbook: View of a Town (Antibes?),

Description

Maker

  • Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Title

Page from a Sketchbook: View of a Town (Antibes?)

Medium

ink, wash technique, white heightening, watercolor

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • graphite,
  • watercolor,
  • and opaque watercolor on blue wove paper,
  • bound

Techniques

  • graphite,
  • watercolor,
  • and opaque watercolor on blue wove paper,
  • bound

Supports

  • thick blue wove paper

Dimensions

25.7 x 19.7 x 2.2 cm (10 1/8 x 7 3/4 x 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Upper left corner of inside of first page:sticker:Robertson & Co./99 Long Acre,/London.Slipcase:brown cloth, with blue leather spine with gold stamp title.

Type

  • Books

Credit

Jesse Metcalf Fund

Object Number

80.238

About

Page from a Sketchbook: View of a Town (Antibes?)

Drawing Closer

Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum
Read Online

Upper left corner of inside of first page:sticker:Robertson & Co./99 Long Acre,/London.Slipcase:brown cloth, with blue leather spine with gold stamp title.

Projects & Publications

Publications

Drawing Closer

Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum
Read Online

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Drawing Closer

March 12 - September 4, 2022

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Page from a Sketchbook: View of a Town (Antibes?) with the accession number of 80.238. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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