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<The Views of Rome>: Palazzo dell'Accademia di Francia (Formerly the Palazzo Salviati)
| Date | 1757-58? |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | etching and engraving |
| Watermarks | Fleurs-de-lys in double circle (Robison 34) |
| Size（cm） | 40.5 x 61.9 |
| Inscriptions | Signed, lower right: Gio. Batta. Piranesi Architetto dis. e inc.; With address, lower right: Si vendono in Roma dai SS. ri Bouchard, e Gravier Mercanti libraj al Corso presso S. Marcello; Title: VEDUTA, nella Via del Corso, DEL PALAZZO DELL'ACCADEMIA instituita da LUIGI XIV, RE DI FRANCIA per i Nazionali Francesi studiosi della Pittura, Scultura, e Architettura.... |
| Standard ref. | Focillon 739; Hind 24 (I/V); Robison (24)B; Wilton-Ely 177. |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.1989-0024 |
Provenance
Dedicated by artist to Olivier Hope; Baron Henri de Triquetti (1804-1874); Childe; De Sartiges; Paul Prouté, Paris; Purchased by the NMWA, 1989.
Exhibition History
- 2012
- Hubert Robert: Les jardins du Temps, The National Museum of Western Art, 6 March 2012 - 20 May 2012, cat. no. 14
Bibliography
- 1918
- Focillon, Henri. Giovanni-Battista Piranesi: Essai de catalogue raisoné de son œuvre. Paris, 1918, pp. 50-57.
- 1922
- Hind, Arthur Mayger. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: A Critical Study with a List of His Published Works and Detailed Catalogue of the Prisons and the Views of Rome. London, 1922 (rep. ed. London, Holland, 1978), pp. 30-73.
- 1970
- Robison, Andrew. The 'Vedute di Roma' of Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Notes towards a Revision of Hind's Catalogue. Nouvelles de l'estampe, no. 4, 1970, pp. 180-197.
- 1978
- Wilton-Ely, John. The Mind and Art of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. London, Thames and Hudson, 1978, pp. 25-44, 297, pl. 1-137.
- 1983
- Robison, Andrew. "Dating Piranesi's Early 'Vedute di Roma'". Piranesi tra Venezia e l'Europa. Bettagno, Alessandro, ed. Venezia, 13 - 15 October 1978, Istituto di Storia dell'Arte della Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Florence, Olschki, 1983, pp. 11-33.
- 1986
- Robison, Andrew. "Watermarks". Piranesi: Early Architectural Fantasies, a Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings. Washington D. C., 1986, pp. 215-239.
- 1989
- Marini, Maurizio. Le vedute di Roma di Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Roma, Newton Compton, 1989, no. 44.
- 1989
- Piranesi: Rome Recorded (exh. cat.). Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. New York, 1989, pp. 80-81, no. 49.
- 1992
- Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. Nos. 23-24 (1988-89), 1992, Koshikawa, Michiaki. New Acquisitions 1988-89. pp. 29, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions 1988-89. pp. 48-83, repr.
- 1994
- Wilton-Ely, John. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. San Francisco, Alan Wofsy, 1994, no. 177.
- 2001
- Giambattista Piranesi: le antichità romane, carceri, alcune vedute di archi trionfali, vedute di Roma (exh. cat.). Published in conjunction with the exhibiton Piranesi - Goya: Roma fantastica and the Sleep of Reason. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 11 October 2011 - 27 January 2002. Milano, Mazzotta, 2001, pp. 150, 237, no. 90.
- 2012
- Hubert Robert: Les jardins du Temps (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art; Fukuoka Art Museum; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; The Tokyo Shimbun, eds. [Tokyo/ Fukuoka/ Shizuoka], The National Museum of Western Art; Western Art Foundation; Fukuoka Art Museum; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art; The Tokyo Shimbun, 2012, pp. 78, 304, cat. no. 14, col. repr.