# Figure Standing under a Stone Arch [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LEGEAY, Jean-Laurent]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Etching, 187 x 158 mm ## Commentary Mid-eighteenth-century artists who sojourned at the French Academy in Rome had developed a taste for fanciful architectural drawings, nourished on the details of a visionary architecture influenced by Piranesi's contemporary engravings. Jean-Laurent Legeay, who stayed at the French Academy from 1738 to 1742 produced fantastic compositions throughout a long, eventful career in Germany, England, and Toulouse. This etching is from the series Views of Ruins. ## Related artworks - [Tomb with Funerary Urn]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()