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The interior of a sanctuary "in honour of the three arts", depicting the rotunda of the "Temple de Goût" and entrance to the "Temple a la Peinture" with its altar beyond
[Paris], 1762Drawing, executed in pencil and brown wash, the tablet at left drawn on an overlay with an indistinct pencil inscription, laid within a black ink border to a sheet of 18th-century paper, 198 × 360 mm.An interior view of the “Temple des Arts”, a monument honouring Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture on a triangular plan, where each one of the arts has a temple connected to the central one of Taste. “It is hard to prove the exact function of Dumont’s sanctuary, but it may have been conceived as a building for discussions on the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, a kind of academy of fine arts” (Marcin Fabiański).
