Proposal for the Trevi Fountain

1730/1732

Luigi Vanvitelli

Associated Names
Luigi Vanvitelli

Artist, Italian, 1700 - 1773

The image depicts a sketched building with grand architecture. The horizon is not visible in the image. The sketch captures the architectural details with loose and quick brushstrokes. The color palette mainly consists of brown and gray tones. The façade is detailed, with hints of statues and a fountain in the center.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 14.5 x 24 cm (5 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1999.140.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private Collection, Austria; (sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 19 November 1999, no. 24); (Crispian Riley-Smith, London); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1993

  • Garms, Jörg. "Zwei unbekannet Zeichnungen Vanvitellis in Österreichischem Privatbesitz" in Von der Bauforschung zur Denkmalpflege: Festschrift für Alois Machatschek zum 65. Geburtstag. Martin Kubelík and Mario Schwarz, eds. Vienna, 1993: 65-77.

2000

  • Seta, Cesare de, ed. Luigi Vanvitelli e la sua cerchia. Naples, 2000, 253, no. 83.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right corner in brown ink: Vanvitelli / Fontana di Trevi Roma.; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 41; by later hand, lower right verso in brown ink: 66 366 / 7 / 256p / 15 / 12810 / 2562 / 38430 / 38430 / 76860 / 76860 / 153720; by later hand, lower left verso in ink: SB: 04 / 1105 / 336

Wikidata ID

Q64594392

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