A View Near the Arco Scuro, Looking Towards the Villa Medici, Rome

1785

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Watercolor over graphite with pen and brown ink
Dimensions: sheet: 12 13/16 x 18 7/8 in. (32.5 x 48 cm)
Collection no.: 2010.439
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Francis Towne. A View Near the Arco Scuro, Looking Towards the Villa Medici, Rome. Francis Towne; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment and Harry G. Sperling Funds, 2010. 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

A View Near the Arco Scuro, Looking Towards the Villa Medici, Rome — Francis Towne. 1785.

Medium: Watercolor over graphite with pen and brown ink. Dimensions: sheet: 12 13/16 x 18 7/8 in. (32.5 x 48 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment and Harry G. Sperling Funds, 2010.

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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