• Anatole Jal (draughtsman)

Polychromatic interior with a cardinal and a monk

1854

- This drawing depicts a cardinal and a monk standing in front of a gallery wall which is composed of marble facing below, and with alternating round and square niches above which are decorated with polychromatic frescoes and possibly tiles. The niches house busts of bearded men. The decoration includes trompe-l'oeil and grotesque work in a classical revival style, interspersed with simple pictographs in a vaguely archaic style.

• theoretical drawing

Pen and brown ink, watercolour and gouache over graphite

sheet: 28.0 x 20.3 cm

DR1987:0018

• finished drawing

• pictorial drawing

• interior view

- The sheet is trimmed to the edge of the drawing on all four sides. There are fragments of paper on the l., r. and b. edge of the verso, probably traces of a previous mount.

signed, inscribed and dated - by the draughtsman, in brown ink, l.r.: "Anatole Jal. Architecte - 1854."

• architecture

• niches
• Classical Revival
• pictographs
• polychromy
• frescoes
• geometric patterns
• grotesques