Ruins at Pompeii
Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet
1853 · Watercolor over graphite · Drawings and Prints
While studying in Italy as winner of the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1851, Ancelet took a great interest in the recently excavated sites of Pompeii and the Appian Way. He executed this drawing with an architect’s precision, first laying out his composition with ruled graphite perspectival lines before applying the watercolor. His study brilliantly captures the strong light and shadows as they fell across the ruins on a cloudless day.
- Artist
- Gabriel-Auguste Ancelet
- Date
- 1853
- Medium
- Watercolor over graphite
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Roberta J.M. Olson and Alexander B.V. Johnson, 2022