Circle of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Mogliano Veneto 1720-1778 Rome)

Travellers in the ruins of a vaulted rotonda

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Circle of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Mogliano Veneto 1720-1778 Rome)
Travellers in the ruins of a vaulted rotonda
with signature 'G. Piranesi 1765'
pen and brown ink, watercolour, bodycolour
27 x 21½ in. (68.6 x 54.6 cm.)

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Mrs Russell, Montreal, at which time it was called 'C.L. Clerisseau'.

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The present work is very close in composition to two watercolours by Charles-Louis Clerisseau (1721-1820), which show the same ruined vault with figures in different positions (A Ruined Coffered Dome, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; and Fantasia architettonica dall' antico, for which see Intorno a Piranesi e David, exhib. cat., P. & F. Vangelli, Rome, 2005, p. 50). A drawing by Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700-1777) also seems to show the same building (Ruines: compositions d'architecture, in the Alger Collection, Faculté de Medicine de Montpellier). Piranesi did have connections with the French Academy in Rome, with whom he worked in the early 1740s on a series of vedute of the city and its ruins.