Interior of a Pompeiian Home with Figures (The Impluvium) / Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
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- Accession Number
- 1976/2.20
- Title
- Interior of a Pompeiian Home with Figures (The Impluvium)
- Artist
- Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Artist Life Dates
- 1814-1879
- Medium and Support
- ink and wash over graphite on cream wove paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1873
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Inscription
- Dated, inscribed and signed, l.r.: 1873/ Pompeii/ E. Viollet el Duc Inscribed on center of old mount (destroyed during restoration): pl. 168 (sic)/ Pompeii.Maison; regio VII.Insula XII. no. 28/ Impluvium
- Dimensions
- 20.6 cm x 29.6 cm (8 1/8 in. x 11 5/8 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Physical Description
- An ink drawing in shades of gray with very exact detailing of objects and architectural elements in the scene. It shows the interior of a Roman house with sunlight streaming into an open courtyard with a fountain. The stone fountain has a square basin supported by a pedestal and a standing nude sculpture above it. One wall of the courtyard is decorated with floral designs and two figural scenes. A small bush is growing in a dirt area of the floor and there are two large vessels against the wall. Two figures are standing in a colonnade to the left of the courtyard. One is a woman dressed in a toga who is looking at a man dressed in a short sleeved tunic. The decorations of the floor, walls and ceiling depict ancient classical designs such as ascanthus leaves, meander and scroll patterns and the roof tiles have floral plume decorations and lion's head spouts.
- Subject Matter
- The drawing is an artist's rendering of the interior of a house (domus) in the ancient city of Pompeii. Here, the artist is imagining what the inside of a Pompeiian house might have looked like during ancient Roman times. It shows the open-air courtyard which allowed sunlight and fresh air into the house. This scene shows an "impluvium" style courtyard where the rain water run off from the roof was collected in channels on the floor.
- Primary Keywords
- architecture (object genre)
- house
- houses
- interior spaces
- interiors
- plants
- seated
- sitting
- standing
- statues
- vessels
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- building divisions
- buildings and the land
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- dwellings
- figures
- genres
- landscapes (environments)
- natural landscapes
- object genres
- objects
- objects we use
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- physical activities
- physical activities by general context
- residential structures
- rooms and spaces
- rooms and spaces by location or context
- sculpture
- sculpture by subject type
- settlements and landscapes
- single built works
- single built works by function
- single built works by specific type
- the natural world
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1335 x 939
- File Size
- 103 KB
- Record
- 1976/2.20
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"Interior of a Pompeiian Home with Figures (The Impluvium); Eugène Viollet-le-Duc." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1976-sl-2.20/1976_2.20.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.