A Man Leaning on a Structure
later 1760s
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and dark brown ink on fragment of a printed title page
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 16.1 × 9.9 cm (6 5/16 × 3 7/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1983.27.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Paul Proute Gallery, Paris, 1982/1983; purchased by NGA, 1983.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Dessins Originaux Anciens et Modernes, Paul Proute, Paris, 1983, no. 15.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 94.
Wikidata ID
Q64572341