Frontispiece with Statue of Minerva
probably 1747/1748
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 50.3 x 64.2 cm (19 13/16 x 25 1/4 in.)
sheet: 53.8 x 77.2 cm (21 3/16 x 30 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.66
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 2, State iii or iv/vii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1918
Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.
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.
Inscriptions
lower right in plate: PIRANESI / INV INCI.; lower left in plate: Presso l'autore a Strada Felice nel palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de'monti. A paoli due e mezzo.; lower right in plate: Piranesi inuento, incise in Roma; by later hand, lower right in brown ink: 13.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 2
Wikidata ID
Q74069987