
Property of a Distinguished Private Collector, Sold Without Reserve
Capriccio with the Pyramid of Gaius Cestius, Classical Ruins, and Seated Figures
No reserve
Auction Closed
June 2, 05:22 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Distinguished Private Collector, Sold Without Reserve
Giovanni Paolo Panini and Workshop
Piacenza 1691–1765 Rome
Capriccio with the Pyramid of Gaius Cestius, Classical Ruins, and Seated Figures
oil on canvas
canvas: 28 ⅛ by 37 in.; 71.4 by 94 cm
framed: 36 by 44 ¼ in.; 91.4 by 112.4 cm
Italico Bras (1870-1943), Venice;
With Carroll-Knight Gallery, St. Louis;
From whom acquired by Jacob M. Heimann (b. 1891), New York, after 1939;
From whom acquired by Anne R. Putnam (1867-1962) and Amy Putnam (1874-1958), San Diego, after 1948;
By whom donated to the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego (inv. no. 50:102), 1950;
By whom sold (“The Property of the San Diego Museum of Art”), New York, Christie’s, 10 January 1990, lot 231 (as Giovanni Paolo Panini);
Where acquired by the present collector.
Saint Louis, Carroll-Knight Gallery, Il Settecento Veneziana from the collection of Jacob M. Heimann, New York, 5 March - 21 March 1948, no. 13;
Atlanta, Atlanta Art Association, Landscape into Art: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings from the XV Century to Our Day, 6 February – 25 February 1962, no. 22 (lent by The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego).
Il Settecento Veneziana from the Collection of Jacob M. Heimann, New York, exhibition catalogue, Saint Louis 1948, cat. no. 13 (as Giovanni Paolo Panini);
The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego Catalogue, A Selective Listing of All the Collections of the Fine Arts Society, San Diego 1960, p. 74, reproduced p. 75 (as Giovanni Paolo Panini);
Landscape into Art: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings from the XV Century to Our Day, exhibition catalogue, Atlanta 1962, cat. no. 22 (as Giovanni Paolo Panini);
B. Frederickson and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge 1972, p. 157 (as Giovanni Paolo Panini).