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Design for a Chimneypiece with Head of Medusa and Figure of Bacchus

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778

Design for a Chimneypiece with Head of Medusa and Figure of Bacchus

ca. 1764-1769
5 7/8 x 7 1/8 inches (150 x 182 mm)
Pen and brown iron-gall ink, over red chalk, on paper.
1966.11:81

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

Notes
On same mat as 1966.11:80.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at right, in red chalk, "medusa / fra le due"; at left and below, in pen and brown ink "nastro // [f]iacole // fiacole // baco [Bacco] che tien / canestra cogliendo l'uva".
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. 81, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department