Grottesco with the Tomb of Nero
1747
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and gray-brown ink over red chalk, tip of the brush with gray ink, gray wash
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Credit Line
Gift of Philip Hofer in memory of his mother, Mrs. Jane Arms Hofer
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Dimensions
overall: 49.1 × 38.9 cm (19 5/16 × 15 5/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1979.6.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Hans Calmann Gallery, London); a New York gallery, late 1930s; Philip Hofer [1898-1984], Boston; Charles B. Hoyt, Boston; Roland Burden-Muller, Switzerland; Philip Hofer [1898-1984], Boston.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1983.
1986
The Glory of Venice, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-95, 483, no. 271.
1997
Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 57.
2000
Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 387, repro.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 89.
Bibliography
1977
Robison, A., MD 15:4 1977, p.387-401, fig.1 & 2.
1986
Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. (Washington: 1986): 29-30, 120, no. 32.
1999
Dixon, Susan M., "Piranesi and Francesco Bianchini." Art History 22 (June 1999): 197-198, 200, no. 25
2000
Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000: 543-544.
2009
Nevola, Francesco. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Groteschi. (Roma: 2009): 175, 177, no. 148.
Watermarks
fleur-de-lys in a single circle with "F" below and "A/cc" above
Wikidata ID
Q64572339