Grottesco with the Tomb of Nero, 1747

Not on View

Medium

pen and gray-brown ink over red chalk, tip of the brush with gray ink, gray wash

Dimensions

overall: 49.1 × 38.9 cm (19 5/16 × 15 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Philip Hofer in memory of his mother, Mrs. Jane Arms Hofer

Accession Number

1979.6.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Image Use

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Provenance

(Hans Calmann Gallery, London); a New York gallery, late 1930s; Philip Hofer [1898-1984], Boston; Charles B. Hoyt, Boston; Roland Burden-Muller, Switzerland; Philip Hofer [1898-1984], Boston.

Associated Names

Burden-Muller, Roland
Hans Calmann Gallery
Hofer, Philip
Hoyt, Charles B.

Exhibition History

1986: The Glory of Venice, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994-95, 483, no. 271.

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 57.

2000: Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000, no. 387, repro.

2014: The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 89.

Bibliography

1977: Robison, A., MD 15:4 1977, p.387-401, fig.1 & 2.

1986: Robison, Andrew. Piranesi Early Architectural Fantasies: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Etchings. (Washington: 1986): 29-30, 120, no. 32.

1999: Dixon, Susan M., "Piranesi and Francesco Bianchini." Art History 22 (June 1999): 197-198, 200, no. 25

2000: Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000: 543-544.

2009: Nevola, Francesco. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Groteschi. (Roma: 2009): 175, 177, no. 148.