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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Design for Chimneypiece with Masks and Addorsed Victories
ca. 1764-1767
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
6 1/16 x 11 3/4 inches (155 x 298 mm)
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
1966.11:59
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Study for Plate 19 of the Diverse Maniere. A preliminary drawing is Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, HdZ 8765; this is one of very few designs for the chimneypiece plates that can be traced through multiple sketches.
Drawing is on verso of a fragment of an etching after Guercino (1591-1666).
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Numbered at lower left, in graphite, "29".
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. 59, repr.
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