Pio Panfili

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Pio Panfili
1723-1812
A Monumental Entrance Hall. Verso: Entrance hall
1757
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, over graphite, on paper; verso: graphite.
8 11/16 x 11 7/16 inches (220 x 290 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Donald M. Oenslager, 1982.
1982.75:448

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October 24, 1969, Mr. John Hardy, a drawing dealer from London, showed me a pen and wash drawing of this identical design but not quite so finished in its detail and also smaller in size (159 x 209 mm).

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Inscribed on verso, in brown ink, "Pio Panfili del. [17]57".

Provenance: 
Armando Perera, Rome; Edmond Fatio, Geneva; acquired in 1959 by Donald M. Oenslager, New York.
Associated names: 

Perera, Armando, former owner.
Fatio, Edmond, 1871-1959, former owner.
Oenslager, Donald, 1902-1975, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Architektur- und Dekorations-Zeichnungen der Barockzeit aus der Sammlung Edmond Fatio, Genf: Austellung in der Graphischen Sammlung der Eidg. Techn. Hochschule in Zürich, 1. VI.-3 VIII. 1946. Zürich : Die Sammlung, 1946, no. 76, repr.

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