The Gardens of the Villa Medici, 1710-1720

Inscription

by later hand, upper right in graphite: 415; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Villa Medici; by later hand, lower right in red pencil: N 18; by later hand, lower right in graphite: Villa Medici / Roma; by later hand, along right edge in graphite: in pallastren(?); by later hand, upper right in graphite: W.8

Provenance

Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, Rome [died 1799]; Vincenzo Pacetti, no. 284, Rome, 1801 [died 1820] (Lugt 2057); Paul Fatio, Geneva (his mark PF, not in Lugt); (sale, Nicolas Rauch, Geneva, 13-15 June 1960, no. 415); (Agnew's, London, 1960); Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann, Ruvigliano, Lugano, 1966; his wife, Mrs. Rudolf J. Heinemann, Lugano and New York; gift to NGA, 2000.

Exhibition History

1961

The Italian Scene, Drawings by Vanvitelli, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1961, no. 4.

Bibliography

1996

Briganti, Giuliano. Gaspar van Wittel. Milan, 1996.

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