Art, literature & history
The Fountain of Rome at the Villa d'Este, Tivoli
1765
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, watercolor, heightened with white, over black and red chalk, on faded blue paper
- Dimensions
- 11 7/8 x 18 3/4 in. (30.2 x 47.6 cm)
- Collection no.
- 1996.506
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles-Joseph Natoire. The Fountain of Rome at the Villa d'Este, Tivoli. Charles-Joseph Natoire; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Anonymous Gift, in honor of a curator, 1996. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Fountain of Rome at the Villa d'Este, Tivoli — Charles-Joseph Natoire. 1765.
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, watercolor, heightened with white, over black and red chalk, on faded blue paper. Dimensions: 11 7/8 x 18 3/4 in. (30.2 x 47.6 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Anonymous Gift, in honor of a curator, 1996.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.