Veduta della Gran Curia Innocenziana

1760s/1770s (this impression)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, engraving, and drypoint on laid paper [counterproof]

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 37.9 x 61 cm (14 15/16 x 24 in.)
    sheet: 43.3 x 64.4 cm (17 1/16 x 25 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.130.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robison 1986, no. 23, State D ii/ii (counterproof)

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Hill-Stone Inc., New York); purchased by NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Bibliography

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.

1986

  • Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Inscriptions

across lower center in reverse: Veduta della Gran Curia Innocenziana... lower right in reverse: Piranesi F.; lower left in reverse: Presso l'Auteur a Strada Felice vicino alla Trinitá de' monti a paoli due e mezza

Watermarks

Robison 36 (fleur-de-lis in double circle with B; 1760/1780s)

Wikidata ID

Q76341566

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