The Tomb of Nero

published 1747/1749

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, engraving, drypoint, scratching

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1986.8.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Robison 1986, no. 23, State i/vi

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Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Inscriptions

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

Markings

Robison 48 & 50)

Watermarks

Bow/arrow and initial Z (Briquet 738

Wikidata ID

Q74071226

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