Veduta della Basilica, e Piazza de S. Pietro in Vaticano, probably 1747/1748

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series Title

Vedute di Roma

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 40.2 x 54.1 cm (15 13/16 x 21 5/16 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. 3, State iv/vii

Accession Number

1985.61.3

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

across bottom in plate: 1. Palazzo Pontificio fabricato da Sisto V. / 2. Loggie di Giulio II. architettura di Bramante Lazzari, e / dipinte da Raffaelle d'Urbino / Veduta della Basilica, e Piazza di S. Pietro in Vaticano / 3 Guglia eretta sa Sisto V. / 4 Vasca tutta di un pezzo di granito Orientale / Presso l'autore a Strada Felice nel palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinita de' monti. A paoli due e mezzo. Piranesi del.scol.; by later hands, lower right in graphite: 3 / H/3 / F/786

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 and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 423, 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.