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Design for the façade of the cathedral in Nettuno

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1702-1786

Title

Date of Production

1734

Medium

traces of graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down, executed using a ruler and compass which has left numerous pinpricks and stylus marks, also with numerous pinholes at each corner

Dimensions

Height: 47 cm
Width: 36 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.62

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 Pier Leone Ghezzi, Rome (1674-1755), 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

Blunt, Anthony, 'Review: Carlo Marchionni. Ein Beitrag zur romischen Architektur des Settecento by J. Gaus' in 'Burlington Magazine', Mar. 1969 - pp. 145, 162-63, 165; 111, 792
pp. 162, 165
fig. 68 on p. 163

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: centre: circle with a double border containing a fleur-de-lis. Backing sheet, Verso: upper centre: a circle, unable to see what it contains.

Inscription: Recto: all brown ink, artist's hand: lower centre, a scale calibrated in units of 10 from "10" to "100" and flanked by "Scala di palmi" on the left and "Cento Romani" on the right; below that: "Facciata del Domo da farsi in Nettuno"; lower right corner, signed: "Carlo Marchionni Arch.tto dell'Emo. Alesandro Albani". Mount (removed, now missing, but recorded in file), Verso: Blunt’s hand: “Arms Clement XII / Corsini (1730-40).”.

Collector's mark: none.

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