1965.403: Ruins of Roman Arches with a Temple in the Background

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.403

People

Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian (Piacenza, Italy 1691 - 1765 Rome, Italy)

Title

Ruins of Roman Arches with a Temple in the Background

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296491

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink, brown and gray wash over black chalk on off-white paper

Dimensions

12.2 × 17.5 cm (4 13/16 × 6 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Jonathan Richardson Sr., London, England (Lugt 2183). [Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay, Vienna, Austria], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.403

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Die Zeichnung, auct. cat., Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay (Vienna, n.d.)
• Adelyn Breeskin, Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance through Le Corbusier, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1939), cat. no. 35
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 338, p. 168; vol. 2, repr. fig. 164
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, exh. cat., Speed Memorial Museum (Louisville, KY, 1947), cat. no. 12
• James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1957), p. 82
• Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 65, n.p., pl. 65, repr.

Exhibition History

• Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance through Le Corbusier, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 12/15/1939 - 01/26/1940
• A Special Exhibition of Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, KY, 03/02/1947 - 03/30/1947
• European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
• 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/08/2018 - 05/09/2018

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