Alzata dell'Obelisco di Campo Marzio (Excavation of the Obelisk from the Campo Marzio), after 1748

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 19 × 28.8 cm (7 1/2 × 11 5/16 in.)

sheet: 26 × 43.5 cm (10 1/4 × 17 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Vincent J. Buonanno

Catalogue Raisonné

Volle and Rosenberg 1974, no. 51, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2016.198.1

Artists / Makers

Jean Barbault (artist) French, 1718 - 1762

Image Use

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Inscription

in ground, lower center of image: Barbault del sculpsit / Romae; on stone in lower left of image: C / CESAR DI VI / AVGVSTVS / PONTIFEX MAX / IMP XIICOS XII TRUSA... / ...SOLIDONVM DEDIT; lower left in plate: A.B.C.D. Pezzo dell'obelisco che si tira su / E. 4 Capre. F. Code delle capre. G. Traverse.; lower center in plate: Alzata dell'Obelisco di Camp Mars / R. Maestro Nicola Abaglia Ingeniere di S. Pietro; lower right in plate: H. I. Altra traversa L. Pollee, M. Pollee legate a / linea del tiro N.O.P.Q. Quattro argani;

Provenance

(Joel R. Bergquist Fine Arts, Stanford); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Joel R. Bergquist Fine Arts

Bibliography

1974: Volle, Nathalie, and Pierre Rosenberg. Jean Barbault (1718 - 1762). Beauvais, 1974: no. 51, ii/ii