The Interior of a Church | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1965.410
People: ? Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian (Mogliano Veneto, Italy 1720 - 1778 Rome, Italy)
Title: The Interior of a Church
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: 18th century
Culture: Italian
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/296492

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions: 21.7 × 17 cm (8 9/16 × 6 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Bateson. [P. & D. Colnaghi, London] sold; to Paul J. Sachs (by 1929), 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: 1965.410
Division: European and American Art
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Publication History

Arthur McComb, Exhibition of Italian Painting of the Sei- and Settecento, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art / Morgan Memorial (Hartford, CT, 1930), no. 43
Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 344, fig. 169

Exhibition History

Italian Painting of the Sei and Settecento, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 01/22/1930 - 02/05/1930

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1965.410: The Interior of a Church