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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Design for Chimneypiece and a Shield-backed Chair
ca. 1765-1769
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper.
7 1/8 x 13 15/16 inches (182 x 354 mm)
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
1966.11:86
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Although this chimneypiece does not appear in Piranesi's "Diverse Maniere," the jambs of this design resemble those in plate 49 (f. 910).
Inscription:
Inscribed at left, in pen and brown ink, "Scudo"; numbered at upper right, inverted, in graphite, "93"; inscribed with initial on verso, in pen and brown ink, "N".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis inside double circle, surmounted by monogram "CB", fragment.
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.
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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. 86, repr.
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