Art, literature & history
Perspective View of the Interior of a Metropolitan Church
1780/1781
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink with gray and brown wash over graphite on laid paper, with framing line in brown chalk
- Dimensions
- overall: 59.4 x 83.9 cm (23 3/8 x 33 1/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1991.185.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Etienne-Louis Boullée. Perspective View of the Interior of a Metropolitan Church. Etienne-Louis Boullée; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Etienne-Louis_Boull%C3%A9e,_Perspective_View_of_the_Interior_of_a_Metropolitan_Church,_1780-1781,_NGA_73870.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Perspective View of the Interior of a Metropolitan Church — Etienne-Louis Boullée. 1780/1781.
Medium: pen and black ink with gray and brown wash over graphite on laid paper, with framing line in brown chalk.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 59.4 x 83.9 cm (23 3/8 x 33 1/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.185.1. Patrons' Permanent Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.