Frontispiece with Statue of Minerva
probably 1747/1748
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 50.5 x 64.1 cm (19 7/8 x 25 1/4 in.)
sheet: 53 x 75 cm (20 7/8 x 29 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 2, State iii or iv/vii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2000
Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 422, repro.
Bibliography
1918
Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.
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 right in plate: PIRANESI / INVI . INCI; lower left in plate: Presso l'autore a Strada Felice nel palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinita de' monti. A paoli due e mezzo; lower right in plate: Piranesi inuento', incise in Roma; by later hands, lower right in graphite: H/2 / F/786 / Frontispiece IIeme volume
Wikidata ID
Q74069627