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Central section through the elevation of the nave of San Salvatore in Lauro

Maker

(artist)
1674-1755

Title

Central section through the elevation of the nave of San Salvatore in Lauro

Date of Production

1727 - 1729

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey-blue and pink wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a historic support, executed using a ruler and compass

Dimensions

Height: 26.1 cm
Width: 38.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.44

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

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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

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: Support (historic), Verso: centre: circle with a border containing a fleur-de-lis (not found in Heawood).

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink: "Spanato della Chiesa de Marchigiani"; lower centre, brown ink: a scale, numbered from "0" to "5" to "10" up to "50" in tens and then "100"; lower right corner, brown ink: "17". Support (historic), Recto: left lower edge and again at lower right corner, graphite: "Ghezzi". Support (historic), Verso: upper left corner, graphite, underlined but crossed out: "14"; upper right corner, graphite, underlined: "13".

Collector's mark: none.

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