# View of the Gardens of Villa Medici

- By: Michel-Martin Drolling (Paris, 1786–1851)
- Date: 1811 - 1816
- Medium: canvas, paper, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 48.4 cm x width 61.5 cm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the BankGiro Lottery
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-5001--1191f5bec96b653b8eacceb80ff799c4)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/cfe3f1d0d974d26d4398d93b4c5f1781.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Drölling won the French Prix de Rome in 1810 and went to Rome the next year. He lived in the Villa Medici, which housed the French academy, where many Dutch artists also took drawing lessons. This view of the manor’s grand gardens, with the Villa Borghese in the distance, can still be seen today. Only the aqueduct was destroyed in 1843.