Proposal for the Trevi Fountain

1730/1732

Luigi Vanvitelli

Artist, Italian, 1700 - 1773

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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

    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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