Jean-Claude Golvin

Pompeii, the praedia by Julia Felix

Type

Drawing

Equipment used

Black ink, Blue ink, Graphite (traces), Paper, Watercolor

Dimensions

50 x 64.7 cm (Overall)
49.5 x 61 cm (Drawing)

Period

antiquity

Location or theme

Pompeii

Presentation :

Front view of the domus Julia Felix in Pompeii. The drawing is in landscape format. It is framed in ink. Traces of watercolor are visible in the margins. Inscriptions appear on the reverse.
The drawing shows a garden with a succession of rectangular basins (euripus), bordered by a portico on the left and a pergola on the right. The garden is enclosed at the far end by a building with a semicircular apse. Three figures circulate under the portico.

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