Veduta della facciata di dietro della Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving and etching
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 52.8 × 75.4 cm (20 13/16 × 29 11/16 in.)
plate: 40 × 61 cm (15 3/4 × 24 in.) -
Accession Number
2012.95.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 10, State undescribed
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Vincent Price, Los Angeles, until 1968 [according to label on back of frame]; Ted Cooper, Washington, DC; gift to NGA 2012.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1918
Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918, no. 787.
1922
Hind, Arthur M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; a critical study with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome. London: Cotswold Gallery; New York: E. Weyhe, 1922.
Inscriptions
lower left in plate [on base of obelisk]: [illegible]...DOMINUM / DICI / VETVIT / ADORO; left center in plate [on wall]: 4; center left in plate [left of dome]: 1; center right [next to dome] 2; ceter left in plate next to obelisk]: 3; bottom margin in plate, Veduta della Facciata di dietro della Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore / 1. Cappella di Sisto V. 2.Cappella di Paolo V. 3.Obelisco ritrovato fra le rovione del Mausoleo d'Augusto, e fatto quivi trasportare ed erigere da Sisto V. 4. Villa Montalto / Giov. Battista Piranesi Architetto dis. ed inc.; by artist, lower right, in pen and brown ink: a. III; by later hand, lower left, in graphite: A 10960 H10 I; by later hand, lower right, in graphite, 15; by later hand, verso upper right, in graphite: 2370A; by later hand, lower left verso, in graphite: A10960; by later hand, lower right, in graphite: AE4765
Wikidata ID
Q76561175