The Roman forum: the three columns of the temple of Castor and Pollux, and the church of Santa Maria Liberatrice. Etching by D. Cunego, 17--, after C.L. Clérisseau.

  • Clérisseau, Charles-Louis, 1721-1820.
Date:
[between 1700 and 1799]
Reference:
2924544i
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Description

The portico called here the temple of Jupiter Stator was subsequently called the temple of Castor and Pollux or temple of the Dioscuri. In the left foreground, porters are loading bales on or off a waggon. Centre, two monks. Right, a fountain in which a horse is drinking and a woman is washing clothes, possibly representing the Puteal Libonis

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1700 and 1799]

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 45.8 x 59.7 cm

Lettering

Temple of Jupiter Stator. View of the three columns that remain of this temple having on the left the church of S.ta Maria Liberatrice with a part of the Pallatin hill now called the Farnese gardens. Temple de Jupiter Stator, du portique de ce temple, ayant à la gauche l'église S.te Marie Libératrice et une partie du palais des empereurs nommé a présent le jardin Farnese. C. Clerisseau p. D. Cunego sc. Romae

References note

Michel Huber and Carl Christian H. Rost, Manuel des curieux et des amateurs de l'art, Zurich 1800, vol. III, p. 173, nos. 43-55
Journal des arts, de littérature et de commerce, 5 nivose an. 11 [1802?], p. 8 ("Le même Cunego, élève de Clérisseau, a gravé à Rome, d'après ces tableaux, une suite de 14 grandes vues de Rome, de Naples, et de Pola en Istrie. Cet ouvrage était destiné à suppléer aux vues qui manquent au Desgodets. Les planches sont aussi à Londres.")
Charles Leblanc, Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, 1854, vol. 2, p. 76, nos. 74-86

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2924544i

Notes

One plate in a set described by Leblanc, loc. cit., as "Italie (Vues d'édifices antiques et de ruines fameuses en). Clérisseau. 13p. in-fol. en larg.", apparenty drawing on Huber and Rost, loc. cit. ("Vues d'édifices antiques et de ruines fameuses en Italie, d'après Clérisseau, 13. grandes et belles pieces, en t."). Neither source states whether this was a title of the set as published, though some later historians have used it so

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