AttributionAttributed to
Roulland le RouxFrench, active 1509–1527
Attributionprobably with
Pierre des Aubeaux
CultureFrench
Titles
- Design for the Rouen Cathedral Tower
Date1516
MediumPen and ink, gray wash, stylus and compass marks, with traces of metalpoint on parchment attached to a later wooden spool
DimensionsSheet (parchment, irregular): 132 × 25 3/4 in. (335.3 × 65.4 cm)
Other (spool): 31 3/8 × 1 1/2 in. (79.7 × 3.8 cm)
Other (spool): 31 3/8 × 1 1/2 in. (79.7 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Agnes Cullen Arnold Endowment Fund
Object number2018.123
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
201 Reckling Gallery
On view
Explore Further
Department
Prints and DrawingsObject Type
(1) A strip of parchment attached to the back of the Tower drawing has an inscription written in an 18th-century hand in thick brown ink:
Le Boucher Prestre au
Dessous de Mr Le President
De Louraille en l’année
1726.
It translates as “The priest Le Boucher, under (?) Monsieur the President of Louraille during the year 1726.” The inscription suggests that it was probably added when the object changed hands.
Exhibition Historynone known
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Separate parchment sheet attached to the verso: Inscribed in brown ink in an 18th-century hand: Le Boucher Prestre au / Dessous de Mr Le President / De Louraille en l’année / 1726
[The Priest Le Boucher, under (?) Monsieur the President of Louraille in the year 1726]
Object verso, in brown/brown ink, verso top right: 10. pieds 2 [Illegible / see image]
[The Priest Le Boucher, under (?) Monsieur the President of Louraille in the year 1726]
Object verso, in brown/brown ink, verso top right: 10. pieds 2 [Illegible / see image]
none
Catalogue raisonnénone
Cataloguing data may change with further research.
If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.
Unknown Indian
1800–1814
Album leaf; pen, sepia ink, traces of color tinting, and gray wash on paper
2011.580
Hubert Robert
1761–1765
Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash and watercolor with traces of black chalk on laid paper with watermark
44.545
Andrea Branzi
2014
Collage of gray and white cut papers with pastel, pen and ink, and fiber-tipped pen over traces of graphite on gray wove paper
2017.209
Andrea Branzi
2014
Collage of cut papers with pen and ink, fiber-tipped pen and pastel over traces of graphite on gray wove paper
2017.212
Cherubino Alberti
1594–1595
Black chalk, pen and brown iron gall ink, brown wash with traces of black chalk
2018.130
Benedetto Luti
c. 1715–1719
Pen and ink and brown wash over traces of chalk, heightened with white on laid paper
2011.210
Claude Antoine Cinier
c. late 1830s–1885
Pen and gray ink, gray wash, and watercolor on paper
2023.502
Jacques Rigaud
1733
Pen and black and gray ink with gray wash on two joined sheets of laid paper
2018.395
Dennis Oppenheim
1980
Pen and pencil with traces of blueprint ink on vellum on museum board
91.1598
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
c. 1745-50
Pen and ink, brush and ink, and gray wash on antique laid paper
2017.381
Francis Towne
1781
Pen and gray ink and grayish-brown wash over graphite on laid paper
2017.367
Remigio Cantagallina
c. 1633
Pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper
70.14