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Giovanni Battista Piranesi

The Tomb of Nero, published 1747/1749

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series Title

Grotteschi (First Edition)

Medium

etching, engraving, drypoint, scratching

Dimensions

plate: 39.2 x 54.3 cm (15 7/16 x 21 3/8 in.)

sheet: 52.2 x 75.7 cm (20 9/16 x 29 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Robison 1986, no. 23, State i/vi

Accession Number

1986.8.3

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Piranesi invento', ed incise; lower right in plate: Ap.o Piranesi dirempetto l'Accademia di Francia in Roma

Marks and Labels

Robison 48 & 50)

Provenance

Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, Derbyshire; (sold, Christie's, London, 5 December 1985); (David Tunick, Inc., New York); acquired 1986 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

1994: The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 385, 387, 483, no. 271 (repro. p. 387)(entry by Olimpia Theodoli).

2001: The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001.

Bibliography

1918: Focillon 22.

1922: Hind p.80, no.26.

1959: Christie's, CHATSWORTH, 12/5/85, 166.

1978: Robison 1978, 13.

1986: Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. Washington: National Gallery of Art; Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.

1994: The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: no. 271.