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

Maker

(artist)
1674-1755

Title

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

Date of Production

1735

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, with historic border support

Dimensions

Height: 22.2 cm
Width: 29.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.40

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; Max de Beer (London); purchased there 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. 17 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.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper centre, brown ink, artist's hand: "Pianta del sec.o piano del Palazzo de Ss.ri / Sacchetti in Ostia del Casale / Architett.a del Cav.l Pietro Berrettini da Cortona //"; lower centre (within diagram), brown ink, artist's hand: "Galleria".

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