Medium: Watercolor, pen and brown ink, over preliminary indications in black chalk; ruled border in pen and brown ink.
Dimensions: 202 x 309 mm. 8 x 12 1/4 in.
Signature: Signed in pen and brown ink, ‘v.j. Nicolle.’ middle right
Inscription: Inscription in the artist’s hand, verso: “Vue des restes du Temple de la Concorde / de la colonne, des Comices; et de l’arc de / Septime Sévère: située près le Mont / Capitolin, à Rome.”
Provenance: Jean-Baptiste de Meryan, Marquis de Lagoy (1754-1829), Lugt, 1710; Raymond Ferrier, Lugt, 2207a; his sale Paris, E. Pape, December 24, 1924 (with its pendant drawing Le Temple de la Vesta, Rome); Private collection, southern France; Galerie Cailleux, Paris, September 20, 1984 (50,000 FF); to Mr. Ivan Phillips (1934-2022); by descent to The Phillips Family Collection, U.S.A; By descent
Exhibitions: Exploring Rome: Piranesi and His Contemporaries, Centre Canadien d’Architecture, Montréal, August 17, 1993 – January 2, 1994 (this exhibition was originally organized by The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, in 1989).
