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Ground plan of the Villa del Pigneto Sacchetti at Castelfusano, near Ostia

Maker

(artist)
1674-1755

Title

Date of Production

1735

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, executed using a ruler and compass

Dimensions

Height: 39 cm
Width: 65 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.34

Mode of Acquisition

Anthony Blunt, Art Fund bequest & grant aid, 1984

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Provenance

from an album compiled and partly drawn by the artist, Rome, probably mid-18th century (several sheets in the Blunt collection belonged to this album); probably Christie’s (London), 1939-41; Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965); purchased from him by Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983), 1941 (£20 for whole group); Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984 See long description for provenance notes.

Exhibition History

Architectural and decorative drawings, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 30/01/1941-28/02/1941

Literature

Kieven, Elisabeth, 'La collezione di disegni di architettura di Pier Luigi Ghezzi' in 'Collezionismo e ideologia : mecenati, artisti e teorici dal classico al neoclassico', Rome 1991
no. 4 on p. 171

Merz, Jorg and Anthony Blunt, 'The Villa del Pignetto Sacchetti' in the 'Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians', December 1990 - pp. 390-406; 49,4
pp. 399-400, 402
fig. 11 on p. 398

Architectural and decorative drawings, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1941
cat. no. 1

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre: "V" on top of a circle with a double border containing a fleur-de-lis (similar to, though not an exact match for Heawood 1591 - Venice 1690).

Inscription: Recto: all in artist’s hand: upper centre edge, grey ink: “F”; centre, brown ink: “A”; below that, areas of plan labelled in grey ink “C” three times and “D”; below that, brown ink: “B.” and below that, grey ink: “E”; lower centre, brown ink: scale numbered “5 10 20 30 40 50” and “100” flanked by “Scala di P.i” on the left and “Romani d’Arch.to”; lower centre margin, grey ink: “Pianta del Palazzo d.o il Pignieto dell Ilmo. Sr. Marchese Sacchetti fuori di Porta angelica Hoggi in parte diruto Architettura / del celeberrimo S.r Cav. Pietro Berrettini da Cortona. Non ò stimato necessario di far la facciata di d.o Palazzo perche lo ritro / vata esatta nel Foglio stampato dal de Rossi, e intagliata da Alessandro Specchi, come vedrete qui annessa.”; two arrows in graphite in the left and right centre margins pointing inwards.

Collector's mark: none.

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