A Magnificent Palatial Interior, 1748/1752

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash with graphite over red chalk, touches of black chalk on laid paper, incised

Dimensions

overall: 37.6 × 51.5 cm (14 13/16 × 20 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler

Accession Number

2000.9.20

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Image Use

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Provenance

The Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin [1871-1941], Washington, D.C.; by inheritanc to his wife, Therese Iselin Laughlin [d. 1958], Washington, D.C.; by inheritance to their daughter, Gertrude Laughlin Chanler [d. 1999], New York; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Chanler, Gertrude Laughlin
Laughlin, Irwin Boyle, The Hon.
Laughlin, Therese Iselin

Exhibition History

1978: Giovanni Battista Piranesi: the Early Architectural Fantasies, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1978: no. 28.

1982: Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 17.

1994: The Glory of Venice, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 391, 484, no. 275 (repro. p. 391, color)(entry by Olimpia Theodoli).

2000: Art for the Nation:Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000-2001, 182, as Fantasy of a Palatial Interior.

2000: Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000 (no catalogue).

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 90.

Bibliography

1954: Thomas, Hylton. The Drawings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. London, 1954: 18-19, 45, no. 31.

1982: Eighteenth-Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1982: 6, 46-47.

1986: Robison, Andrew. Piranesi: the Early Architectural Fantasies. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings. Washington, D.C., 1986: 33-34.

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: 391, 484.

2000: Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000: 182-183.

2000: "A selection of 2000 museum acquisitions," Apollo, December 2000, reprod. p. 21.

2000: Robison, Andrew. "Gifts and Acquisitions: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Fantastic Monument in a Palatial Interior." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 24 (Fall 2000): 9.