Proposal for the Trevi Fountain
1730/1732
Artist, Italian, 1700 - 1773

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 14.5 x 24 cm (5 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
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Accession
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