Piranesi, Giovanni Battista PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista View of the Basilica of …

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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista View of the Basilica of S. Lorenzo fuori delle mura. Rome Giovanni Battista Piranesi 1750 Etching, 37,8 x 66,1 cm, laid paper, signed "Piranesi F.", address, Italian text (few spots, marg. water stain, marg. ms. note in pencil, sm. tear on edge strengthened). 2nd state before the price was erased and numbers were added. Ref. Hind 41.12.II (of V). - Wilton-Ely 186.

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Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

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Estim. 1 200 - 1 800 EUR

Circle of Abraham-Louis-Rodolphe Ducros, Swiss 1748-1810- View of the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine, after Giovanni Battista Piranesi; pen, black ink and watercolour on paper, inscribed 'DUCROS TEMPLE OF PEACE / (BASILICA OF MAXENTIUS)' to the backing board, 39 x 55.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK. Note: This watercolour appears to be a copy after Giovanni Battista Piranesi's (1720-1778) etching entitled 'Veduta degli Avanzi del Tempio della Pace' [BM 1914,0216.109], first published in 1757. The present work very much recalls the style and technique of Ducros, whose output was heavily influenced by Piranesi, with Andrew Wilton describing in the Burlington Magazine (vol. 117, no. 992, November 1985) how, in Ducros' watercolours, 'the great monuments of the Roman past are depicted in compositions that rely unashamedly on Piranesi'. The present work bearsa striking similarity to a watercolour of the same subject by Ducros, dated to 1779, which is now held in the collection of the Yale Centre for British Art [B1977.14.141].

Estim. 200 - 300 EUR

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian 1720-1778- Veduta della Basilica di S. Giovanni Laterano; etching, signed 'Piranesi del. Scol.' (within the plate, lower right), numbered '694' (within the plate, upper right), 38.7 x 54.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, UK.

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