Fantasy of Magnificent Courtyards and Loggie with a Monumental Staircase, early 1770s

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with gray and black wash over graphite on two joined pieces of laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 38.3 × 51.1 cm (15 1/16 × 20 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

William B. O'Neal Fund

Accession Number

2003.134.1

Artists / Makers

Pietro Gonzaga (artist) Venetian, 1751 - 1831

Image Use

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Inscription

signed in pen and brown ink on top rightmost banner “DOM/Petrus/Gonza/ga/inven/tor ac/Delin/Pictor;” inscribed by artist on opposite banner “DOM…Pictor,” on top flag “SPQR,” and in bottom center “DOM”

Provenance

Henri Gorse (not in Lugt); (sale, Sotheby's London, 11 July 2001, no. 234, as Attributed to Giuseppe Galli Bibiena); (Robin Halwas, London); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Gorse, Henri
Halwas Limited, Robin
Sotheby's, London

Exhibition History

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 119.