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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Design for a Chimneypiece with a Palmette at Center, and surrounding sketches for wall decoration
ca. 1764-1769
Pen and brown ink on paper.
4 13/16 x 5 inches (124 x 129 mm)
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
1966.11:82
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Drawing is on verso of a fragment of writing (not in Piranesi's own hand) concerning the architecture of San Giovanni in Laterano, in pen and brown ink. See Stampfle catalogue for full transcription and Fabio Barry, "Rinovare, anziché ristorare: Piranesi as Architect," for recent discussion.
In same mat as 1966.11:83.
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Watermark: Bird inside circle, with letter "F" above, fragment, quarter of circle.
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.
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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. 82, repr.
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