Ruins with Vase, Herm, and Colonnade
Cooper Hewitt

Ruins with Vase, Herm, and Colonnade

Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain, French, 1715–1759 · mid-18th century

Brush and gray wash, black chalk on paper with additions across upper and lower margin, lined with cardboard and border of blue paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Ruins of a temple shown against a curved colonnade visible in the distance. A broken statue of a woman in the foreground leans against the base of a sepulchral monument surmounted by an urn. Three male figures, one seated on a broken column, are visible in the distance among the ruins.

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