Live auction - Lot 136
[Italian]
The so-called temple of Minerva Medica.
Rome, 1764
Hammer price: €
950
€ 700 / 900
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
Etching, 47 x 70 cm, thick laid paper, signed 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, L. 700a).
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