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Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Chasm
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "J. P. Panini"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "Pr. Mr. Mariette"; recto on Mariette mount, lower center:, in pen and black ink: "JOAN . PAULI / PANINI" [enclosed within a cartouche]; verso on mount, lower center, in pen and black ink: "Marcus Curtius"
Provenance
Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774) [stamp (Lugt 1852) recto, lower right, in black and his mount]; sold, Paris, Nov. 15, 1775–Jan. 30, 1776, lot 574. Thomas Williams Fine Art, London, 2002. Sold by Salamander Fine Arts, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, June 13, 2005 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 51 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Paolo Panini / Italian, 1691–1765
- Date
- c. 1718
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and iron-gall ink, brush and black and gray ink, and black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laminate card
- Dimensions
- 27.4 × 41.8 cm (10 13/16 × 16 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2022.87
More by Giovanni Paolo Panini in museum collections
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-00006041
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