Plan of the second floor of the the Villa del Pigneto Sacchetti at Castelfusano, near Ostia
Maker
(artist)
1674-1755
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
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
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".
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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