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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Design for a Chimneypiece with a Tablet and a Medallion with the She-Wolf on the Lintel, and Rams' Heads, Serpents, Medallions, and Greyhounds on the Jambs
ca. 1764-1767
Pen and brown ink, over black and red chalk, on paper.
6 15/16 x 12 3/16 inches (176 x 309 mm)
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
1966.11:67
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Study for plate 39 of "Diverse maniere d'adornare i cammini," 1769, f. 900; on the verso is a fragment of Piranesi's plate 6 from the "Antichità di Cora," 1764, f. 546.
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Inscribed at right, in pen and brown ink, "medaglie / con Roma de / Cesari, trium / viri, e ditatori"; numbered at upper right, in graphite, "79"; printed at lower left, inverted, in black ink, "iii".
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. 67, repr.
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