A Fantastic Vase

1746/1747

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brownish black ink with gray wash over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 23.8 × 14.2 cm (9 3/8 × 5 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.63.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(P&D Colnaghi & Co., London); acquired 1986 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Old Master Drawings, Colnaghi, London, July 1986, no. 39

1994

  • Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994.

1997

  • Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 58.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 88.

Bibliography

n.d.

  • Colnaghi, London: 7/1/86-7/19/86, no.39.

Inscriptions

lower right verso in black chalk: Guardi

Watermarks

single circle containing a profile of a bird on a triple mountain (similar but not close enough to Heawood 161-168)

Wikidata ID

Q64572345


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