Vases and Candelabra (plate 100)

1778 or before

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper (proof)

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 67.5 x 43.5 cm (26 9/16 x 17 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 78.4 x 53.7 cm (30 7/8 x 21 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1992.97.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Focillon 1918, no. 708, State proof before letters

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Christopher Mendez, London; purchase by NGA, 1992

Associated Names

Bibliography

1918

  • Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.

Inscriptions

lower left plate: Cavalier Piranesi disego ed inc.

Wikidata ID

Q75118925

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