Rovine d'una Galleria di Statue nella Villa Adriana a Tivoli
1770
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 45.4 x 57.8 cm (17 7/8 x 22 3/4 in.)
sheet: 51.3 x 65.2 cm (20 3/16 x 25 11/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2000.7.34
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 93
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel, Washington D.C.; gift to NGA, 2000.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2000
Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.
Bibliography
1918
Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.
1922
Hind, Arthur M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; a critical study with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome. London: Cotswold Gallery; New York: E. Weyhe, 1922.
Inscriptions
lower right in image: Rovine d'una Galleria / di Statue nella Villa Adri= / ana a Tivoli / A. Avanzi di pitture a grottesco; lower left in plate below image: Cavalier Piranesi del e inc.
Wikidata ID
Q75425937