Grottesco with the Tomb of Nero

Provenance

(Hans Calmann Gallery, London); a New York gallery, late 1930s; Philip Hofer [1898-1984], Boston; Charles B. Hoyt, Boston; Roland Burden-Muller, Switzerland; Philip Hofer [1898-1984], Boston.

Grottesco with the Tomb of Nero

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

1747

Accession Number

1979.6.1

Medium

pen and gray-brown ink over red chalk, tip of the brush with gray ink, gray wash

Dimensions

overall: 49.1 × 38.9 cm (19 5/16 × 15 5/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Philip Hofer in memory of his mother, Mrs. Jane Arms Hofer

Tags

Color: White