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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Design for Rectangular Frame for Oval Mirror with Floral Ornament, Dove in Wreath, and Winged Putto Heads
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over graphite, on paper with oval cut out and design area pasted to lining; border in black ink.
19 13/16 x 15 1/4 inches (503 x 387 mm)
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
1966.11:109
Notes:
This and the related drawings 1966.11:107 and 1966.11:108 are difficult to pin down in Piranesi's work. They do not seem to relate to the decorative art designs produced for the Diverse Maniere but may be from the preceding decade.
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. 109, repr.
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