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Gian Paolo Panini
1691 or 1692-1765
Classical Ruins with Figures and an Early Christian Sarcophagus
ca. 1755-1765
Pen and gray ink, with gray wash, and blue, green, and purple watercolor, over graphite, on paper.
13 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches (356 x 238 mm)
Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978.
1982.18:2
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscription:
Signed with initials at lower left, in pen and gray ink, "IPP"; in cartouche on mount, in black ink, "JOAN. PAULI / PANNINI".
Provenance:
Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (Lugt 1852); Sir Geoffrey Harmsworth; sale, London, Sotheby's, 25 March 1982, under lot 79, repr.
Associated names:
Mariette, Pierre Jean, 1694-1774, former owner.
Harmsworth, Geoffrey, Sir, former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 286.
Denison, Cara D., with contributions by Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bulow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 34b, repr.
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