Giovanni Battista Piranesi

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1720-1778

Design for a Chimneypiece with Bucrania, Festoons, Medallions with Reclining Figures, and Medusa Heads, Sketch of Masonry

ca. 1764-1769

Pen and brown ink on paper.

5 15/16 x 6 3/4 inches (150 x 171 mm)

Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.

1966.11:79

Notes:

Drawing is on verso of fragment of a letter, in pen and brown ink, that referes to works of sculpture by Giuseppe Pelosini in connection with work at Santa Maria del Priorato. See Stampfle catalogue for full transcription; on same mat as 1966.11:78.

Provenance:

Mrs. J. P. Morgan, New York; by descent to her sons Junius S. Morgan, Princeton and Paris (no mark, see Lugt 1536) and Henry S. Morgan, New York.

Associated names:

Morgan, Jane Norton, 1868-1925, former owner.
Morgan, Junius Spencer, 1892-1960, former owner.
Morgan, Henry S. (Henry Sturgis), 1900-1982, former owner.

Bibliography:

Stampfle, Felice. Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Dover, 1978, no. 79, repr.

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