The Portico of the Pantheon, 1750s and early 1760s

Not on View

Medium

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

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.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Gift of Dian Woodner

Accession Number

2011.42.5

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (artist) Venetian, 1720 - 1778

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Dencker-Winkler, Eva
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

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

1986: 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.