Detail of View from the Colosseum Towards the Palatine Hill Attributed to Ernst Fries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2010

Artist: Attributed to Ernst Fries (German, Heidelberg 1801–1833 Karlsruhe)

Title: View from the Colosseum towards the Palatine

Date: circa 1825

Medium: Oil on paper laid down on cardboard

Dimensions: 10 x 14 7/8 in. (25.4 x 37.8 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Whitney Collection, Promised Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003

Accession Number: 2003.42.34

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