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Plan of the piano nobile, Villa del Pigneto Sacchetti at Castelfusano, near Ostia

Maker

(artist)
1674-1755

Title

Plan of the piano nobile, Villa del Pigneto Sacchetti at Castelfusano, near Ostia

Date of Production

1735

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 21.9 cm
Width: 29.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.39

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


piani nobili


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. 16 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: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper centre edge, brown ink, artist’s hand: "Pianta del P.mo Piano Nobile del Palazzo [the former two words added above] delli SSti Sacchetti / in Ostia del Casale //"; left centre, brown ink: "Longa p.mi 68-"; three of the corners on the plan labelled in brown ink "7"; lower centre, brown ink: "Longa La facciata p.mi 95. Romani / Architett.a di Pietro da Cortona //"; right lower edge, light brown ink, unclear but same as on AB.38: "Lin" or "Lmp"?.

Collector's mark: none.

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