| 1784-1789. |
Sketchbook, in a green cardboard binding, executed during the artist's stay in Rome at the Académie de France as a recipient of the Grand Prix de Rome. Twenty-four drawings depict urban views of Rome, some inscribed by monument (including S. Gregorio, S. Lorenzo Fuori delle Mura, S. Giovanni Laterano, Villa Negroni, Villa Mattei). The remaining sketches are landscapes and figure studies, some after classical sculpture (seated figures from the Villa Borghese and Palazzo Lancelloti, a standing figure in the Villa Ludovisi, a relief group from a sarcophagus in the Palazzo Mattei, ancient chairs from the Villa Negroni, a Death of Meleager derived from the Capitoline sarcophagus copied also by David) and studies after Raphael (School of Athens), Vouet (Christ from the Temptation of St. Anthony), and other sources, as well as original compositions. Thirty-five of the sketches are numbered 1 through 48, the numbers drawn in brown ink.