Sepolcro di Cecilia Metella
1762
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: 45.9 x 64.2 cm (18 1/16 x 25 1/4 in.)
sheet: 54 x 77.7 cm (21 1/4 x 30 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1985.61.70
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 1922, no. 67, State ii/v
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: Sepolcro di Cecilia Metella...; lower right in plate: Piranesi F.; by later hand, lower right in brown ink: n.6; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M. 67
Wikidata ID
Q74070033