Harvard Art Museums > 1997.204: Landscape with Ruins Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Landscape with Ruins (Giovanni Battista Pittoni, the Elder) , 1997.204,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, May 21, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/293658. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 1997.204 People Giovanni Battista Pittoni, the Elder, Italian (Vicenza, Italy 1520 - 1583 Vicenza, Italy) Title Landscape with Ruins Classification Drawings Work Type drawing Date 16th century Places Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Verona Culture Italian Persistent Link https://hvrd.art/o/293658 Physical Descriptions Medium Brown ink on cream antique laid paper Dimensions actual: 20.6 x 30 cm (8 1/8 x 11 13/16 in.) Inscriptions and Marks inscription: lower right, brown ink: Battisti Pittoni inscription: lower left, brown ink: 1727 (or 1722) collector's mark: l.l., brown ink: L. 2951--paraph of Dezallier d'Argenville Provenance Recorded Ownership History Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, Paris (L. 2951 (as Pierre Crozat), sold [through his sale, P. Remy, Paris, January 18-28, 1770, no. 177]. Unidentified collector. Private collector, New York, sold [through P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London and New York]; to Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Ontario, Canada, 1994, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1997. Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an anonymous donor in honor of Lynn and Philip Straus Accession Year 1997 Object Number 1997.204 Division European and American Art Contact am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History Stephen Ongpin, An Exhibition of Master Drawings, 1994, no. 5, n.p., repr. color Jacqueline Labbé and Lise Bicart Sée, La collection de dessins d'Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, reconstituée d'après son Abrégé de la vie des plus fameux peintures, édition de 1762, Musée du Louvre (Paris, France, 1996), no. 1787, p. 253 Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago/Princeton University Press (Chicago, IL and Princeton, NJ, 1997), p. 194 Exhibition History An Exhibition of Master Drawings, Colnaghi USA Ltd., New York, 04/26/1994 - 05/27/1994; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, 06/29/1994 - 07/08/1994 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
