Avanzi della Villa di Mecenate a Tivoli, construita di travertini a opera incerta
1763
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: 45.2 x 66.9 cm (17 13/16 x 26 5/16 in.)
sheet: 53.9 x 77.6 cm (21 1/4 x 30 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.68
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 65, State i/iii
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
lower left in plate: Avanzi della Villa di Mecenaten/ a Tivoli, costruita di travertini / a opera incerta / ...Piranesi fe.; by later hand, lower left in brown ink: 30.I.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 65
Wikidata ID
Q74070015