Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Design for a Chimneypiece with Bucrania, Festoons, and Addorsed Satyrs
Black chalk on paper cut to an L-shape.
10 9/16 x 8 1/8 (upper margin) inches (269 x 207 mm)
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
1966.11:72
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Numbered at upper right, inverted, in graphite, "81".
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.
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. 72, repr.
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