Proposal for the Trevi Fountain, 1730/1732

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Medium

pen and brown ink with gray wash on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 14.5 x 24 cm (5 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

1999.140.1

Artists / Makers

Luigi Vanvitelli (artist) Italian, 1700 - 1773

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right corner in brown ink: Vanvitelli / Fontana di Trevi Roma.; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 41; by later hand, lower right verso in brown ink: 66 366 / 7 / 256p / 15 / 12810 / 2562 / 38430 / 38430 / 76860 / 76860 / 153720; by later hand, lower left verso in ink: SB: 04 / 1105 / 336

Provenance

Private Collection, Austria; (sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 19 November 1999, no. 24); (Crispian Riley-Smith, London); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Private Collection, Austria
Riley-Smith, Crispian

Bibliography

1993: Garms, Jörg. "Zwei unbekannet Zeichnungen Vanvitellis in Österreichischem Privatbesitz" in Von der Bauforschung zur Denkmalpflege: Festschrift für Alois Machatschek zum 65. Geburtstag. Martin Kubelík and Mario Schwarz, eds. Vienna, 1993: 65-77.

2000: Seta, Cesare de, ed. Luigi Vanvitelli e la sua cerchia. Naples, 2000, 253, no. 83.