Lot 316
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Circle of Giovanni Paolo Panini

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Description

  • Giovanni Paolo Panini
  • Capriccio of Roman Ruins with Belisarius begging for alms, the Borghese Gladiator, the Dying Gaul, the Colosseum, Trajan's Column and the Temples of Castor and Pollux, Fortuna Virilis and Vesta
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Sir Stuart Hare, KCMG;
Anonymous Sale, Christie's, London, December 14, 1945, lot 54, there purchased for 18 Guineas by
S. Kaye, London.

Catalogue Note

The present work is based on a known composition by Giovanni Paolo Panini in a private collection, Milan dated by Fernando Arisi to circa 1740 (see Gian Paolo Panini e i fasti della Roma del '700, Rome 1986, p. 377, no. 290).