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

Maker

(artist)
1674-1755

Title

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

Date of Production

1735

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 22 cm
Width: 29.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.38

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; Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Literature

Merz, Jorg, Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture, New Haven and London, 2008
pp. 9-11
fig. 15 on p. 11

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: a longsword (close to Briquet 5133, which has many variations, all dated to Italy mid-15th century).

Inscription: Recto: upper centre edge, brown ink, artist's hand: "Pianta del P terreno del Palazzo [the former two words added above] delli SS. Sacchetti / in Ostia del Casale //"; lower left, graphite, underlined and supralined: "n"; lower centre, brown ink: "Architett.a di Pietro da Cortona"; right lower edge, brown ink: "Lvn". Former support (an album page, removed but still mounted with the drawing), Recto: upper right corner, graphite: "9" or "6"; upper right corner, brown ink, album page: "112"; lower Former support, Verso: lower centre: heavy offset from brown ink inscription on D.1984.AB.37, which must once have been pasted in the same album; lower right corner, graphite: "4".

Collector's mark: none.

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