Giovanni Battista Piranesi and workshop

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Giovanni Battista Piranesi and workshop

1720-1778

Sketches of Seated Male Nude, Balustrade, Vase, Column, and Winged Figure

ca. 1775-1778

Pen and brown ink on paper.

10 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (276 x 200 mm)

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

1966.11:118

Notes:

The figure drawing at upper right of this sheet is by an unidentified member of Piranesi's workshop in his latest years; Morgan drawing 1966.11:117 is by the same hand. The rough sketches of figures and ornamental objects (made with the sheet turned 180 degrees) is one of a group of related late drawings by Piranesi himself -- see also 1966.11:116 and 1966.11:119 -- the function of which is unclear; they do not relate any of his printed work.
On same mat as 1966.11:117.

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "Plani..."; numbered at upper right, in graphite, "33".

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. 118, repr.

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