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Design for the Corner of a Decoration (recto); Sketch of Monumental Building with Four Temple-Front Entrances (verso)

Jacques de Lajoüe · 1686–1761

Maximum print size

32.3 × 21.6 cm · 12.7 × 8.5 in

at 300 DPI from the 3,806 × 2,548 px original. Comfortably fills a standard 8×10 inch frame.

Frame: 50.8 × 40.6 cm · 20.0 × 16.0 in
Mat opening: 32.3 × 21.6 cm · 12.7 × 8.5 in
Mat border, sides: 9.4 cm · 3.7 in
Mat border, top and bottom: 9.7 cm · 3.8 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date: ca. 1730
Medium: Pen and dark gray ink, brush and gray wash, with parallel diagonal lines and scale in black chalk, and with incised lines square off in lower part of sheet (recto); pen and gray ink over black chalk (verso). Framing lines on bottom and right side (recto)
Type: Drawings
Size: 27.3 × 41.0 cm · 10.7 × 16.1 in
Orientation: landscape
Subjects: Architecture, Flowers, Leaves
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗