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

Fountain with Upper Basin Topped by a Pine Cone Supported by Sphinxes, Dolphin Spouts Emptying into Lower Basin. Verso: fragmentary sketch of ornament

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778

Fountain with Upper Basin Topped by a Pine Cone Supported by Sphinxes, Dolphin Spouts Emptying into Lower Basin. Verso: fragmentary sketch of ornament

ca. 1765
9 3/4 x 5 5/16 inches (248 x 136 mm)
Black chalk on paper; verso: red chalk.
1966.11:112

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

Notes
Carlo Gasparri ("Una fontana ritrovata. Ancora su Piranesi a Villa Albani," 1996) identifies this drawing as the plan for a fountain realized in the garden of the Villa Albani, which was later disassembled, with the various elements reused elsewere at the villa.
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. 112, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department