CHIUDI

Author: Lorenza Campanella

Subject
The Mausoleum of Casal Rotondo at the sixth mile of the ancient Appian Way. In the eighteenth century on top of the circular monument was built a farmhouse, with stables and haylofts, which today has been transformed into a residential building.

N. inv. RF 14778, Recto
Charcoal pencil
H. 21.4 cm; l. 30 cm
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1732-1806
In 1759, Fragonard traveled a stretch of the Appian Way together with Jean-Claude Richard de Saint-Non, known as L’Abbé de Saint-Non. At that time, the ancient street was in very poor condition: “l’ancienne Via Appia que l’on suit pendant plusieurs postes mais qui est si rompue et si mauvaise que l’on ne peut aller qu’au pas” (Journal de Voyage de l’Abbé de Saint-Non, A. Brejon and P. Rosenberg, 1986, p. 98).

Placement
Musée du Louvre

Credits
Musée du Louvre

References
Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, 1987, p. 120.

Subject
Tables from the 1853 majestic work of Luigi Canina: the first part of the Via Appia from Porta Capena to Boville described and demonstrated with the surviving monuments by the commander L. Canina, after excavations and other works carried out for the papal government’s  laudable order from 1850 to 1853 to promote the restoration; Vol. I Description; Vol. II Monuments.

Vol. I – Table I First part of Porta Capena at the 6th mile.
Vol. I – Table II Second part of the Via Appia Antica’s topography from the 4 th to the 8 th mile.