Architectural Fantasy: Temple of Athena Interior
Object Details
- Attributed to
- Charles Michel-Ange Challe, French, 1718 – 1778
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Flights of stairs lead downwards to the transept from a hall at left and from the apse at right. The design of the center of the apse has been subjected to a correction. The statue of the goddess was originally intended larger than she was definitely sketched. Only the left side of the the apse shows a colonnade and a relief over it in the rear.
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- ca. 1750
- Accession Number
- 1911-28-137
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- architecture
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, gray wash and white gouache over pencil on laid paper
- Dimensions
- Mat: 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.)
- H x W: 35.3 × 61.8 cm (13 7/8 × 24 5/16 in.)
- made in
- France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1911-28-137
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq446645e8a-2d3e-4cef-b8a4-33d9b69f227f
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