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Palatial Courtyard with a Fountain
Inscriptions
Signed bottom left: "Piranesi"
Provenance
Baron Robert von Hirsch (died 1977), Basel [Joachim 1980]. Sold by Charles Slatkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.
Exhibition history
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Isntitute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 22, pl. VIa, as "Fantasy of a Palace with a Fountain at the Right." The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, p. 86, cat. 136, pl. 143, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 66-67, cat. 24 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
Publications
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 1G5.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Piranesi / Italian, 1720-1778
- Date
- c. 1750
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on buff laid paper
- Dimensions
- 25.7 × 38.9 cm (10 1/8 × 15 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund
- Accession no.
- 1963.139
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00002292
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