Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1720-1778
Sketch for Vase or Fountain with Figure of Victory. Verso: sketch for a cornice, computations.
ca. 1765-1775
Pen and brown ink on paper; verso: black chalk, numbered in black and red chalk.
8 9/16 x 3 15/16 inches (218 x 100 mm)
Bequest of Junius S. Morgan and gift of Henry S. Morgan.
1966.11:113
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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. 113, repr.
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