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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.403
People
Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian (Piacenza, Italy 1691 - 1765 Rome, Italy)
Title
Ruins of Roman Arches with a Temple in the Background
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296491

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown and gray wash over black chalk on off-white paper
Dimensions
12.2 × 17.5 cm (4 13/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jonathan Richardson Sr., London, England (Lugt 2183). [Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay, Vienna, Austria], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.403
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Die Zeichnung, auct. cat., Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay (Vienna, n.d.)
  • 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. 35
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 338, p. 168; vol. 2, repr. fig. 164
  • A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 12
  • James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1957), p. 82
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 65, n.p., pl. 65, repr.

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2018 - 05/09/2018

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