Rovine del Sisto o sia della gran sala delle Terme Antoniniane, 1765

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series Title

Vedute di Roma

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 43.1 x 65.4 cm (16 15/16 x 25 3/4 in.)

sheet: 53.9 x 77.5 cm (21 1/4 x 30 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, acquired with assistance from The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 1922, no. 77, State ii/iv

Accession Number

1985.61.80

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

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Inscription

lower right in plate: Rovine del Sisto, o sia della gran sala / delle terme Antoniniane / Cavalier Piranesi F.; by later hand, lower right in graphite: M 77

Provenance

Mark J. Millard, New York; purchased by NGA, 1985.

Associated Names

Millard, Mark Jacob

Exhibition History

1994: The Glory of Venice, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 402, 403, 485, no. 283 (repro. p. 403)(entry by Olimpia Theodoli).

Bibliography

1918: Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi; essai de catalogue raisonne de son oeuvre. Paris: Librairie Renouard, Henri Laurens, 1918.

1922: Hind, Arthur M. Giovanni Battista Piranesi; a critical study with a list of his published works and detailed catalogues of the prisons and the views of Rome. London: Cotswold Gallery; New York: E. Weyhe, 1922.

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. 283.