The Portico of the Pantheon
1750s and early 1760s
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and dark brown ink with gray and gray-brown wash over red chalk, on three pieces of paper glued together vertically
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
Overall: 21 x 30 cm (8 1/4 x 11 13/16 in.)
left section: 21.1 x 8.4 cm (8 5/16 x 3 5/16 in.)
center section: 21 x 18.6 cm (8 1/4 x 7 5/16 in.)
right section: 21 x 7.4 cm (8 1/4 x 2 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2011.42.5
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Eva Dencker-Winkler, Zurich); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 26 January 1986; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1986
Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 48.
Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1986, no. XIV.
1987
Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 37.
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 46.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 83 (entry by Andrew Robison).
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.
2017
The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
Inscriptions
lower left verso in pen and brown ink (cut off): F (in red chalk niche) / r / credo in t / este in unc / rina, che / at et este
Watermarks
star in circle with Latin cross (similar to Briquet 6089)
Wikidata ID
Q64572350