The Portico of the Pantheon

1750s and early 1760s

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist, Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and dark brown ink with gray and gray-brown wash over red chalk, on three pieces of paper glued together vertically

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection, Gift of Dian Woodner

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 21 x 30 cm (8 1/4 x 11 13/16 in.)
    left section: 21.1 x 8.4 cm (8 5/16 x 3 5/16 in.)
    center section: 21 x 18.6 cm (8 1/4 x 7 5/16 in.)
    right section: 21 x 7.4 cm (8 1/4 x 2 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2011.42.5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Eva Dencker-Winkler, Zurich); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 26 January 1986; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1986

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 48.

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1986, no. XIV.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 37.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 46.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 83 (entry by Andrew Robison).

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Inscriptions

lower left verso in pen and brown ink (cut off): F (in red chalk niche) / r / credo in t / este in unc / rina, che / at et este

Watermarks

star in circle with Latin cross (similar to Briquet 6089)

Wikidata ID

Q64572350

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