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

Classical Ruins with Figures and Statues of Silenus and the River Nile

Gian Paolo Panini
1691 or 1692-1765

Classical Ruins with Figures and Statues of Silenus and the River Nile

14 x 9 3/8 inches (356 x 238 mm)
Pen and gray ink, with gray wash, and blue, green, and brown watercolor, over graphite, on paper.
1982.18:1

Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed with initials at lower left, in pen and gray ink, "IPP"; in cartouche on mount, in gray ink, "JOAN. PAULI / PANNINI".
Associated names
Mariette, Pierre Jean, 1694-1774, former owner.
Harmsworth, Geoffrey, Sir, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 286.
Denison, Cara D., with contributions by Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bulow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, 34a, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department