Property from a Private Collection
Giovanni Paolo Panini
An architectural capriccio with the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine
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July 3, 06:49 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
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Property from a Private Collection
Giovanni Paolo Panini
Piacenza 1691–1765 Rome
An architectural capriccio with the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine
signed and located lower centre, on the stone: I.P.PANINI/ ROMAE
oil on canvas
unframed: 98.7 x 136.5 cm.; 38⅞ x 53¾ in.
framed: 113.9 x 151.2 cm.; 44⅞ x 59½ in.
The Duchess of Uzès, France;
With Galerie Cailleux, Paris, by 1979;
From whom acquired by a private collector, 1985;
By whom sold (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Sotheby's, 6 December 2006, lot 50, for £187,200;
Where acquired by the present owner.
Lyon, Musée de la civilisation gallo-romaine, Quelques Antiques dans l'art du XVIIIe, 11–29 June 1979, no. 3;
Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Rome 1760–1770: Fragonard, Hubert Robert et leurs Amis, 15 February – 26 March 1983, no. 60;
Nuremberg, Kunsthalle und Norishalle, Der Traum vom Raum: Gemalte Architektur aus 7 Jahrhunderten, 13 September – 23 November 1986, no. 65.
N. Colin, Quelques Antiques dans l'art du XVIIIe, exh. cat., Lyon 1979, n. p., no. 3, reproduced;
J. Cailleux and M. Roland Michel, Rome 1760–1770: Fragonard, Hubert Robert et leurs Amis, exh. cat., Paris 1983, n. p., no. 60, reproduced;
H. Bideau, in Der Traum vom Raum: Gemalte Architektur aus 7 Jahrhunderten, K. Löcher (ed.), exh. cat., Marburg 1986, p. 328, no. 65, reproduced.
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