Campo San Zanipolo Decorated for the Visit of Pius VI
1782
Artist, Venetian, 1743 - 1784

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and dark brown inks with gray wash over graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 34.1 × 46.7 cm (13 7/16 × 18 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1996.37.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Felice Pasqua (stamp, FP in a concave form, Lugt undescribed); private collection, Milan; (Bob Haboldt, New York); purchased 1996 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1997
Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 46.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 111.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: [?] artista [?] / pag. 93 - Cita [?] stampa d' Domenico Fossati / incisa de Leonardis / (io penso - D. Fossati scenografia / figure Domenico Tiepolo? / cambio [the rest undeciphered]; by same later hand, lower center to lower right verso in graphite: [?] la visita d' Papa Pio VI (1782) / Disegno per la stampa / La benedizione d' Pio 6 - nel Museo Civico d' Padova - illustrato fg. 327 libro le / feste Veneziane d' Bianca Tamassia Mazzarotto - editore Sansoni per fondazione Cini de Venezia / - d' Leonardis Fossati -
Watermarks
crowned shielf containing stars, with a crescent above (Heawood 824, Venice 1784)
Wikidata ID
Q64541069