Interno del Tempio d.o di Canopo nella Villa Adriana
1776
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: 45.5 x 58.2 cm (17 15/16 x 22 15/16 in.)
sheet: 53.9 x 77.5 cm (21 1/4 x 30 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.134
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 131, State i/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1997
Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 64, as Interior of the Temple Called Canopus in the Villa Adriana.
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 center in plate: INTERNO del Tempio de. di Canopo nella Villa Adriana. / ... / Cav. Piranesi F.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 131
Wikidata ID
Q74070393