Ventes live - Lot 200
[Italian]
The so-called temple of Minerva Medica.
Rome, 1764
€ 700 / 900
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Description du lot
Etching, 47 x 70 cm, thick laid paper, signed in plate at lower left margin "Piranesi F." (tiny bit of foxing).
Under passe-partout
Beautiful depiction of the temple, now generally accepted as a Nymphaeum of the Horti Liciniani. The centre of the dome collapsed in 1828. An excellent dark impression of the 1st state (of 4), before reworking of dome hatching.
Ref. Hind 59:74. - Wilton-Ely 205:207.
Prov. Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen (stamp for sold doubles on verso, Lugt 700a).
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