Veduta interna del Sepolocro di S. Costanza
probably 1749/1750
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: 41.6 x 55 cm (16 3/8 x 21 5/8 in.)
sheet: 53 x 75.1 cm (20 7/8 x 29 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.38
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 37, State iii/vi
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.
Associated Names
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 INTERNA DEL SEPOLCRO DI S. COSTANZA... / Piranesi Architetto fec. / Presso l'autore a Strada Felice nel Palazzo Tomati vicino alla Trinità de' Monti. A paoli due e mezzo.; by later hands, lower right in graphite: 36 / H/37 / F/811
Wikidata ID
Q74069819