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Théodore Ballu
Paris 1817 – 1885 Paris
Ruins of the Temple of Apollo
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size: 181 x 276 mm, 7 ¼ x 10 ¾ in.
technique: Graphite, white chalk on green paper
description: Signed and dated in graphite lower left: Tre. Ballu. 8bre. 1845 Inscribed by the artist in graphite lower right: Corinthe. Restes du Temple de Minerve. Calamathis.
Description
The present drawing depicts the temple of Apollo at Corinth with the Acrocorinth fortress in the background. Ballu wrote on the drawing that the temple is the one of Minerva. Its mistake probably comes from the book La Grèce. Vues pittoresques et topographiques dessinées par Otto Magnus von Stackelberg published in Paris in 1830 and where the author make the confusion. The temple of Apollo, built in the sixth century BC, was one of the earliest Doric temples in mainland Greece.
Additional information
| size: | 181 x 276 mm, 7 ¼ x 10 ¾ in. |
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| technique: | Graphite, white chalk on green paper |
| description: | Signed and dated in graphite lower left: Tre. Ballu. 8bre. 1845 |
