- Description
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- Creator(s)
- Thomas Girtin (1775-1802) after Jean-Baptiste-François Génillion (1750-1829)
- Title
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- Paris: The Ruins of the Roman Baths, Hôtel de Cluny
- Date
- (?) 1802
- Medium and Support
- Watercolour on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 31.4 × 23.2 cm, 12 ⅜ × 9 ⅛ in
- Subject Terms
- French View: Ancient Ruins; Paris and Environs
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- Collection
- Versions
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Paris: The Ruins of the Roman Baths, Hôtel de Cluny
(TG1897)
- Catalogue Number
- TG1896
- Girtin & Loshak Number
- 482ii as 'Julian's Baths, Hotel Cluny, Paris'; '1801–2'
- Description Source(s)
- Viewed in 2001 and 2002
Provenance
Robert Nesham (1846–1928); his sale, Christie’s, 30 July 1924, lot 80 as 'Ewenny Priory, Glamorganshire' by Joseph Mallord William Turner; bought by 'Agnew', £52 10s; Thos. Agnew & Sons (stock no.562); Reginald Arthur Tatton (1857–1926); Gilbert Davis (1899–1983); Spink & Son Ltd, London; bought by Paul Tod; his sale, Christie's, 25 May 1956, lot 55 (withdrawn from the sale); 'A Lady'; her sale, Christie’s, 4 November 1975, lot 78 as 'Julian’s Baths, Hotel de Cluny, Paris'; bought by Spink & Son Ltd, London, 1,600 gns; Stanhope Shelton; bought from him by the Gallery, 1982
Exhibition History
Agnew’s, 1925, no.47 as ’Les Bains de Julien, Paris’; Spink’s, London, 1976, no.110; London, 2002, no.81
Bibliography
Wilton, 1979, p.47; Tate, 1983, p.27, p.83; Tate, 1984, pp.21–22; Bower, 2002, p.138
Place depicted
Footnotes
- 1 The financial records of John Girtin covering the income he received from the sale of the contents of his brother's studio, as well as from the Eidometropolis and the twenty aquatints of the Picturesque Views in Paris, together with a detailed account of the expenses from both projects, are transcribed in the Documents section of the Archive (1804 – Item 1).
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