Sepulcro de famiglia de' Scipioni
1748
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
Edward E. MacCrone Fund and the Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund
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Dimensions
plate: 13.5 x 27.4 cm (5 5/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
sheet: 37.1 x 52.7 cm (14 5/8 x 20 3/4 in.) -
Accession Number
2002.66.1.19
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Catalogue Raisonné
Focillon 1918, no. 60
Associated Artworks
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Frontispiece
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1748
Antichita Romane de Tempi Della Republica
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1748
Dedication
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1748
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Sotheby's London, 21 March 1972, lots 142 and 142, included in a two-volume bound copy of Le Magnificenze di Roma); (Herman Shickman Gallery, New York); (sale, Sotheby's New York, 1 November 2001, the volumes broken up and sold as individual sets, this lot 135); (Harris Schrank, New York); purchased 2002 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1918
Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.
Wikidata ID
Q76341411