View of the Caelian Hill, Rome, with the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, seen from the Aventine, Rome

ca. 1750

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk, pen and black ink, brush and brown and gray wash
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 17 5/16 in. (30.1 × 44 cm)
Collection no.: 2017.96
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Claude Joseph Vernet. View of the Caelian Hill, Rome, with the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, seen from the Aventine, Rome. Claude Joseph Vernet; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, The Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gift, in honor of Furio Rinaldi, 2017. 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

View of the Caelian Hill, Rome, with the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, seen from the Aventine, Rome — Claude Joseph Vernet. ca. 1750.

Medium: Black chalk, pen and black ink, brush and brown and gray wash. Dimensions: Sheet: 11 7/8 × 17 5/16 in. (30.1 × 44 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Purchase, The Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gift, in honor of Furio Rinaldi, 2017.

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.

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