1965.409: Roman Landscape

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.409

People

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)

Title

Roman Landscape

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296481

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

26.7 x 37.5 cm (10 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Alphonse Kann, sold; through [American Art Association, New York, January 7, 1927, lot 15] to Paul J. Sachs, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.409

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• The Alphonse Kann Collection, Part II: Paintings and Drawings, auct. cat., American Art Association (New York, January 7, 1927), lot 15
• Arthur McComb, Exhibition of Italian Painting of the Sei- and Settecento, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art / Morgan Memorial (Hartford, CT, 1930), no. 44
• Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, exh. cat., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy/Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1935), no. 74, repr.
• Winslow Ames, Drawings: Fourth Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat., Lyman Allen Museum (New London, CT, 1936), cat. no. 113
• Tiepolo and His Contemporaries, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 1938), no. 69
• Adelyn Breeskin, Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance through Le Corbusier, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1939), cat. no. 42
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 343, fig. 168
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 16
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 35, repr.
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 68, repr. fig. 53

Exhibition History

• Italian Painting of the Sei and Settecento, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 01/22/1930 - 02/05/1930
• Master Drawings, Selected from the Museums and Private Collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, 01/01/1935 - 01/31/1935
• Fourth Anniversary Exhibition; Drawings, Lyman Allen Museum, New London, 03/02/1936 - 04/15/1936
• Tiepolo and his Contemporaries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 03/14/1938 - 04/24/1938
• Five Centuries of Realism, Toledo Museum of Art, 04/01/1939 - 04/30/1939
• Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance through Le Corbusier, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 12/15/1939 - 01/26/1940
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
• Giovanni Battista Piranesi Bi-Centennial, Tate Britain, London, 05/03/1978 - 06/25/1978
• 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/26/2022 - 01/09/2023

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