Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Colonnaded courtyard

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778

Colonnaded courtyard

ca. 1742-1743
5 7/8 x 5 1/2 inches (149 x 141 mm)
Pen and brown ink and gray wash, over black chalk, on paper.
1966.11:3

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

Notes
Drawing is a study in reverse for left corner of etching, "Prospetto d'un regio Cortile nel cui mezzo vi st ̉una Loggia tra i cui intercolonni si veggono Fontane, Statue, ed altri ornamenti," from "Prima parte di architetture," 1743, f. 11.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, in pen and brown ink, "camicetta / un farsetto / due paia calce / un paio manicotti / corralini [collarini?] No 4 / fazletti No 1 / sugamano".
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. 3, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department