Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

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Property from an Important Swiss Private Collection

Giovanni Paolo Panini

Rome, a capriccio view of the Colosseum, Trajan's Column, the statue of Marcus Aurelius, and the Arch of Constantine

Auction Closed

December 6, 06:47 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Swiss Private Collection


Giovanni Paolo Panini

Piacenza 1691–1765 Rome

Rome, a capriccio view of the Colosseum, Trajan's Column, the statue of Marcus Aurelius, and the Arch of Constantine


signed and dated lower left: I.P.P. 17[... 38?] 

oil on canvas 

unframed: 100 x 136 cm.; 39⅜ x 53½ in.

framed: 130 x 165 cm.; 51¼ x 65 in.

M. Marin;

His sale, Paris, Lebrun & Saubert, 22 March 1790, lot 12, for 401 livres to Le Vachez;

Charles-François-Gabriel Levachez (act. 1760–1820), engraver;

Probably Alexandre Pau de Saint-Martin (1751–1820), painter;

Probably his sale, Paris, Paillet & Bénard, 2 October 1820, lot 42, for 150 francs, or possibly unsold, to Paillet (as including the Arch of Septimius Severus, rather than Constantine);

Possibly Charles Paillet (1780–1848);

Private collection, France;

Whence acquired in 1998.

Paris, Salon des Beaux-Arts, September 1997.