Veduta, nella Via del Corso, del Palazzo dell' Accademia
probably 1757/1758
Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778
Artwork overview
-
Medium
etching on laid paper
-
Credit Line
-
Dimensions
plate: 40.6 x 62.3 cm (16 x 24 1/2 in.)
sheet: 53 x 75.2 cm (20 7/8 x 29 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.24
-
Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 24, State ii/v
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. 425, 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
across bottom in plate: VEDUTA, nella Via del Corso, DEL PALAZZO DELL' ACCADEMIA istituita da LUIGI XIV, RE DI FRANCIA... / Gio. Batta. Piranesi Architetto dis. e inc. / Presso l'autore a Strada Felice vicino alla Trinità de' monti. A paoli due e mezzo.; by later hands, lower right in graphite: 23 / H/24 / F/739
Wikidata ID
Q74069747