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Studio of Giovanni Paolo Panini Piacenza 1691 - 1765 Rome
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40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description
- Giovanni Paolo Panini
- An architectural capriccio of Roman ruins and four archeologists;An architectural capriccio of Roman ruins and an apostle preaching
- a pair, both oil on canvas
Literature
The former, possibly F. Arisi, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Rome 1986, p. 425, cat. no. 388.
Catalogue Note
The present works are studio copies after Panini's originals in Rome, Galleria dell'Accademia di S. Luca, inv. nos. 62 and 67 respectively (see F. Arisi, under Literature below, p. 425, cat. nos. 388 and 389) but are in rectangular rather than oval format. While the latter is certainly not mentioned in Arisi's list of versions under cat. no. 389, the former may possibly be identified with a version Arisi mentions as "una sul mercato antiquario milanese (m. 1.245 x 0.935)" under cat. no. 388.
Of the antiquities included in the latter the figure standing to the right, carrying a child, is the Borghese Faun, also called Silenus with the young Bacchus, that is now in the Louvre but, in Panini's day, was in the Villa Borghese in a room named after it (see F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, New Haven 1981, pp. 247-50, cat. no. 53, reproduced., p. 307, cat. no. 77, reproduced p. 306). The Borghese Faun was discovered near the present Casino Massimo sometime before 1569 as it is mentioned, in that year, in a letter from Cardinal Ferdinand de' Medici thanking Carlo Muti, the then owner, for allowing him to have it moulded. The ruins in the foreground with the inscription …STITUER… on the entablature are those of the Temple of Vespasian and Titus in the Forum Romanum. Of the former, the frieze depicting a triumphal scene is probably a free rendering on one of two bas-reliefs on the inside walls of the Arch of Titus; the vase on the left is the Borghese Vase, from the 1st century A.D. and now in the Louvre, but discovered in 1566 in the gardens of Sallust, Rome.
Another pair of the same compositions, likewise rectangular and given to Panini's studio, sold in these Rooms ("Property of a Private Collector, Long Island"), March 13, 1985, lot 71C, for $15,000.
Of the antiquities included in the latter the figure standing to the right, carrying a child, is the Borghese Faun, also called Silenus with the young Bacchus, that is now in the Louvre but, in Panini's day, was in the Villa Borghese in a room named after it (see F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, New Haven 1981, pp. 247-50, cat. no. 53, reproduced., p. 307, cat. no. 77, reproduced p. 306). The Borghese Faun was discovered near the present Casino Massimo sometime before 1569 as it is mentioned, in that year, in a letter from Cardinal Ferdinand de' Medici thanking Carlo Muti, the then owner, for allowing him to have it moulded. The ruins in the foreground with the inscription …STITUER… on the entablature are those of the Temple of Vespasian and Titus in the Forum Romanum. Of the former, the frieze depicting a triumphal scene is probably a free rendering on one of two bas-reliefs on the inside walls of the Arch of Titus; the vase on the left is the Borghese Vase, from the 1st century A.D. and now in the Louvre, but discovered in 1566 in the gardens of Sallust, Rome.
Another pair of the same compositions, likewise rectangular and given to Panini's studio, sold in these Rooms ("Property of a Private Collector, Long Island"), March 13, 1985, lot 71C, for $15,000.