Fantasy of Magnificent Courtyards and Loggie with a Monumental Staircase

early 1770s

Pietro Gonzaga

Artist, Venetian, 1751 - 1831

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with gray and black wash over graphite on two joined pieces of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 38.3 × 51.1 cm (15 1/16 × 20 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2003.134.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Henri Gorse (not in Lugt); (sale, Sotheby's London, 11 July 2001, no. 234, as Attributed to Giuseppe Galli Bibiena); (Robin Halwas, London); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 119.

Inscriptions

signed in pen and brown ink on top rightmost banner “DOM/Petrus/Gonza/ga/inven/tor ac/Delin/Pictor;” inscribed by artist on opposite banner “DOM…Pictor,” on top flag “SPQR,” and in bottom center “DOM”

Watermarks

three thick crescents with countermark "W" (not in Heawood)

Wikidata ID

Q64619687

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