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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.
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).