Art, literature & history
A Classical Temple
c. 1780
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink with gray, brown, and green washes on laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 41.5 x 51.2 cm (16 5/16 x 20 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1991.150.70
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Louis Gustave Taraval. A Classical Temple. Louis Gustave Taraval; 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:Louis_Gustave_Taraval,_A_Classical_Temple,_c._1780,_NGA_73524.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Classical Temple — Louis Gustave Taraval. c. 1780.
Medium: pen and black ink with gray, brown, and green washes on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 41.5 x 51.2 cm (16 5/16 x 20 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.150.70. Gift of William B. O'Neal, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art.
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.