Frontispiece with Statue of Minerva, probably 1747/1748

Not on View

series Title

Vedute di Roma

Medium

etching on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, acquired with assistance from The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 2, State iii or iv/vii

Accession Number

1985.61.2

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

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

Provenance

Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.

Associated Names

Millard, Mark Jacob

Exhibition History

2000: "Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century", Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 422.

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.