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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Design for Chimneypiece with a Tablet and Rams' Heads, with an Alternate Scheme of a Palmette Frieze
ca. 1765-1769
Pen and brown ink on paper.
5 13/16 x 7 9/16 inches (147 x 192 mm)
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
1966.11:87
Notes:
On same mat as 1966.11:88; 90; 91.
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Numbered at upper right, inverted, in graphite, "83".
Watermark: Six-pointed star inside circle, surmounted by cross, with letter "F" below circle, centered on chain line.
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. 87, repr.
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