The Villa Imperiale, 1530s

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash, and incised on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 29.1 x 21.6 cm (11 7/16 x 8 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

1997.41.1

Artists / Makers

Titian (artist) Venetian, 1488/1490 - 1576

Venetian 16th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in pen and brown ink: PALAZO DE LO / INPERIALE

Provenance

August Grahl [1791-1868], Dresden (Lugt 1199);[1] Stephen Spector; (sale, New York, Christie's, 30 January 1997, no. 5, as circle of Dosso Dossi); NGA purchase (via David Tunick) in 1997.

[1] Lugt 1199 and SCIPIO both report an August Grahl sale on 27-28 April 1885. A review of the catalogue suggests this object may be lot 169 under Anonymous Italian Masters as Front Elevation of a Building in the Renaissance style.

Associated Names

Christie's
Grahl, August
Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

1964: Master Drawings from a Private Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1964 (no catalogue).

1965: An Exhibition of Master Drawings: Fra Bartolomeo, 1475-1517, to John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925, from a private collection, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, 1965, no. 9 (as North Italian).

1967: Drawings from the Collection of Stephen Spector, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1967, no catalogue.

1969: Master Drawings from the Stephen Spector Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1969, no. 4 (as North Italian).

1976: Old Master Drawings from American Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976, no. 79 (as Dosso Dossi?).

Bibliography

1962: Van Schaack, Eric. Master Drawings in Private Collections. New York, 1962: 77, no. 30 (as North Italian).

1970: Marchini, Giuseppe. "Il Problema dell'Imperiale." Commentari 21 (1970): 88, note 30, repr. 68, fig. 3 (as Venetian, possibly Dosso or an architect).

1971: Pinelli, Antonio, and Orietta Rossi. Genga Architetto: aspectti della cultura urbinate del primo 500. Rome, 1971: 192, note 47, 270, 380, tav. a (as anonymous Italian, 16th century, Dosso Dossi?).